Fortress Press

"Robert Hood's volume should be read precisely because it lies outside the range of Euro-American cognizance. It unbinds God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit from Greco-Roman intellectual hegemony, thereby making the case for a new transcultural theology, deeply penetrated by the profoundly human and pragmatic spirituality of Africa and the Caribbean."
— Gayraud S. Wilmore

"This elegant theological exposé of the Eurocentric colonization of — and by — white theology becomes a richly textured prolegomenon for a mult-cultural reconstruction of Christianity, including an inspiring critique of the doctrine of the Spirit from the vantage point of the spirits."
— Catherine Keller

"Must God Remain Greek? brings together, in a fascinating and readable way, the cultural and religious thought and activities of African peoples, Caribbeans, and Afro-Americans to bear upon Christian theology. As a scholar Dr. Hood is at home in the three regions, as well as in the Western Christian tradition. He raises fundamental questions for theology, which have tremendous consequences in the present day of Christian expansion and ecumenical movement.... It is refreshing to see an old problem recast in cultural areas where Christianity is throbbing and thriving."
— John S. Mbiti

Preface
Introduction

PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS


1. African Indigenous Churches
   The Church of the Lord (Aladura)
   The Cherubim and Seraphim Church
   The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire)
   Zionist Churches in South Africa
   Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya)
   Ingigenous Elements of Worship
   
   
2. Caribbean Indigenous Religions and Churches
   Haitian Voodoo
   Cuban Santeria
   Trinidadian Shango
   Jamaican Churches and Traditional Religions
   º Native Baptists
   º Myalism
   º Kumina
   º Jamaican Revivalism
   
   
3. Liberation Theologies in Afro Cultures
   South Africa's Apartheid Culture
   South African Liberation Theology
   Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)
   
   PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH
   
   
4. Christian Theology and Afro Cultures
   Culture and the Grammer of Faith
   Salvation, Sin, and Death in Afro Cultures
   
   
5. God: Traditional Motifs
   God in African Traditional Religion
   Attributes of God
   º Divine Ubiquity
   º Divine Creator
   º Divine Pastoral Care
   
   The Religious Worldview of Africans
   
   
6. Christ: A Son Out of Egypt
   Boundaries of Christology
   Christ as the Anointment One
   Christ as Lord of the Heavens
   Christ as Healer
   The Liberator and the Liberated
   
   
7. Spirit and Spirits: Pneumatology and Afro Cultures
   The Biblical Tradition
   The Dogmatic Tradition
   The African Tradition
   Evil Spirits and Lordship in Afro Cultures
   The Spirit and Black American Religion
   Spirits in Black Culture
   
   
8. Ancestors and Saints
   Hagiolatry and the Ancestors
   º Ancestorship in the Caribbean
   º Ancestors and Black American Religion
   Hagiography: Christian Saints and the Ancestors
   
   Epilogue
   Selected Bibliography
   Index
   Acknowledgments