So­cie­ty and Church in Af­ri­can Chris­tia­ni­ty

Pa­pers of the Tan­z­a­ni­an Theo­lo­gi­cal Ecu­me­ni­cal Col­lo­qui­um The vo­lu­me „So­cie­ty and Church in an Af­ri­can Con­text“ is the out­co­me of a con­fe­rence of the Tan­z­a­ni­an Theo­lo­gi­cal Ecu­me­ni­cal Col­lo­qui­um. The nine ar­tic­les from youn­ger theo­lo­gi­ans working in dif­fe­rent fields in Tan­z­a­nia, from va­rious de­no­mi­na­tio­nal back­grounds, ta­ck­le the role of the Chris­ti­an churches in the Tan­z­a­ni­an so­cie­ty from di­ver­se per­spec­ti­ves. While a few of them are deal­ing with the his­to­ri­cal role of the Church during[nbsp]Ujamaa, the ma­jo­ri­ty of them em­bark upon a dis­cus­sion of eccle­si­al chal­lenges with which the churches curr­ent­ly grapp­le, e.g. ques­ti­ons of de­­ve­­lop-ment, trans­for­ma­ti­on pro­ces­ses, HIV/AIDS and the youth. In sum we can sta­te that churches in Af­ri­ca have to be in­vol­ved in so­cie­tal is­sues and have to in­fluence the so­cie­ty from their Chris­ti­an per­spec­ti­ve. They are of enorm­ous im­portance if we look at their role for the fu­ture of this con­ti­nent