Papers by Uchenna D. Anyanwu
Seedbed, 2024
Reviewed by Eric Coblentz Eric Coblentz served along with his wife, Briana, and four children in ... more Reviewed by Eric Coblentz Eric Coblentz served along with his wife, Briana, and four children in both Haiti and Indonesia for nearly a decade fulfilling multiple roles including, an orphanage director, university professor, and researcher. He now serves as research fellow for the International Institute for Religious Freedom 1 and promotes religious freedom for all people from an academic perspective. He now resides in Orlando, Florida along with his wife and four children.
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International Journal of Pentecostal Missiology Vol 7, Issue 1, 2020
This essay explores the meaning of joy and the underlying reasons undergirding its experience in ... more This essay explores the meaning of joy and the underlying reasons undergirding its experience in the Church in Africa. It argues that part of God's mission in the world is for humans to experience the joy of the Triune God through relationships grounded on God's love. Insofar as the Church in Africa is concerned, some of the reasons undergirding the manifestation of joy include the hope that believers find in Jesus Christ, their participation in Christ's suffering, contentment amidst lack and poverty, the joy of having one's sin forgiven and the undeniable sense of eternal security in Christ, divine healing, deliverance from demonic powers, and life in community. The article further argues that joy should be considered as a missiological motif and posits that the promise which the Good News of Great Joy holds is the unshakable foundation of the joy in the Church in Africa.
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Evangelical Interfaith Dialogue Journal, 2018
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Pneuma, 2018
This essay explores the understanding of the Holy Spirit in Islam and his role in missio Dei from... more This essay explores the understanding of the Holy Spirit in Islam and his role in missio Dei from a Christian missiological perspective, and then argues for pneumatological considerations that Jesus’s followers can employ to promote Christian-Muslim peacebuilding engagement. It asserts that the task of reconciling all things belongs primarily to the domain of missio Dei and, consequently, that the Holy Spirit is the One who initiates and creates occasions and circumstances that birth enduring, holistic, and true peace. Armed with such understanding, peacebuilding enthusiasts who follow Jesus can engage in christo-pneumatological peacebuilding that entails the practice of faithful presence—dwelling with the “other” as the temple of the Holy Spirit, who glorifies the Son and the Father through the human participant in the missio Dei.
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Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022
Given the consistent challenge that Islamist acute violence particularly in Nigeria, this monogra... more Given the consistent challenge that Islamist acute violence particularly in Nigeria, this monograph attempts to respond to the question: How can Jesus's followers pattern response to violence after Jesus’s model demonstrated in his triumph over death, evil, sin, and violence through staurocentric pathways? And how can Jesus's followers in Nigeria adopt the same staurocentric model in order to not only overcome acute violence within the country but also to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric forgiveness, hospitality, and other practices toward Muslims? In this study, I posit that peacebuilding-contextual-theology be grounded on the mystery of the cross (σταυρός–stauros)—a theologico-theoretical framework that the church in Nigeria should espouse in order to position herself to extend hands, heads, hearts and homes of staurocentric practices, whose appropriation must be undertaken through constructive and critical integration of the God-given African peacebuilding concepts autochthonous to Africa’s mosaic cultural contexts. The pivotal thesis of this study is that the staurocentric model remains the triune God’s instrument for triumphing over violence, and thus, should be espoused by Jesus's followers in every era and context for peacebuilding in contexts of violence through a triadic constructive and critical integration of indigenous peacebuilding concepts.
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Pickwick Publications, 2022
Given the consistent challenge of Islamist acute violence, particularly in Nigeria, this monograp... more Given the consistent challenge of Islamist acute violence, particularly in Nigeria, this monograph attempts to respond to the question: How can Jesus's followers pattern response to violence after Jesus's model demonstrated in his triumph over death, evil, sin, and violence through staurocentric pathways? And how can Jesus's followers in Nigeria adopt the same staurocentric model in order to not only overcome acute violence within the country but also to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric forgiveness, hospitality, and other practices toward Muslims? In this study, I posit that peacebuilding contextual theology be grounded on the mystery of the cross (σταυρός-stauros)--a theologico-theoretical framework that the church in Nigeria should espouse in order to position herself to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric practices, whose appropriation must be undertaken through constructive and critical integration of the God-given African peacebuilding concepts autochthonous to Africa's mosaic cultural contexts. The pivotal thesis is that the staurocentric model remains the triune God's instrument for triumphing over violence, and thus should be espoused by Jesus's followers in every era and context for peacebuilding in contexts of violence through a triadic constructive and critical integration of indigenous peacebuilding concepts.
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