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By Joseph G. Healey and Donald F. Sybertz

Maryknoll, NY, Orbis Books, Reprinted 1999.
Paperback, 400 pages. $25.00
Publication history: ISBN: 1570751218,
First printing, 1996, by Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
First printing by Orbis Books, New York, 1997.
Second printing by Orbis Books, August 1999.
Tenth printing by Orbis Books, September 2010.

Reviewed by John Kwami Nyamidie

Paulines Publications Africa Edition

TOWARDS AN AFRICAN NARRATIVE THEOLOGY
By J. Healey & D. Sybertz
ISBN 9966-21-187-x; 400 pages; publication 1996; 1st reprint 2006; 5th reprint 2005; price: US$ 5.00
The authors attempt to help us to look at God’s creation and its beauty to see the saving message of Christ. Through the use of African oral traditions he presents a deep spirituality as well as theological and philosophical insights.

 

In both editions Chapter Three is on “Church as the Extended Family of God” and has

Section 8:  “Theology of Small Christian Communities as a New Way of Being Church.”
Section 9: Ecclesiology of Church-as-Family
Section 10: African Communion Ecclesiology and Pastoral Inculturation.”

The “Index” has many references to SCCs.