The Missionary and the Diviner: Contending Theologies of Christian and African Religions

In a series of conversations, a Christian missionary and an African diviner challenge and compare one another’s views on fundament theological questions. What is the meaning of God, of family and community? Of sickness and healing, death and the afterlife, good and evil? These discussions tellingly reveal both the vitality of traditional African religions, and Christianity’s ethnocentrism when faced with basic issues of African life. The Missionary and the Diviner demonstrates how—and why—a culturally informed approach to evangelization is essential to the indigenization of Christianity.