Christian Panentheism, Indigenous Akan Religious Ecology, and Eco-Pneumatology in Ghana
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https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.27437Keywords:
Akan religious ecology, Christian panentheism, eco-pneumatology, sacred spaces , Ghanaian Christianity, nonhuman worldAbstract
The claims of many indigenous people regarding their stewardship responsibility towards sustaining the natural world—religious ecology—are in many ways comparable with the claims made by Christians. Against the background of the continuous degradation of the nonhuman world and the urgent need to safeguard it from further degradation, this article argues that some form of panentheism exists in Ghanaian Christianity and that this provides a bridge for constructive dialogue with Akan indigenous religious ecologies for a contextual Christian theology of environmental sustainability, particularly ecological pneumatology. Consequently, this article specifically examines how dialogues regarding the earth (land) between indigenous Akan religious ecology and panentheist practices in Ghanaian Christianity offer bridges for a contextualized eco-pneumatology in Ghanaian Christianity.
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