Towards an African Narrative Theology

"Carve with your friends; alone, you cut yourself." (Luvale, Zambia) "A book which really attempts to produce a narrative theology in practice. Not only a highly practical aid to pastoral work in Africa, it should be a stimulus for others to do likewise."--Aylward ShorterThe fruit of decades of collecting the proverbs and wisdom sayings of the peoples of East Africa, Towards an African Narrative Theology shows how they offer a new way to look at and understand the Christian mysteries and the Christian life in an African cultural context. Joseph G. Healey, M.M., a Maryknoll priest, has taught at colleges in Nairobi, Kenya. Author of Once Upon a Time in Africa and Small Christian Communities Today, he is a member of the St. Charles Lwange Small Christian Community in Dar es Salaam and the St Jude Thaddeus SCC in Musoma. Donald F. Sybertz, M.M., is a Maryknoll missionary priest who has worked in Tanzania sincce 1955. He has studies, researched, and written about Sukuma cultura and traditi