Ubuntu Theology
Ubuntu theology is a Southern African Christianity, Christian perception of the African Ubuntu philosophy which recognizes the humanity of a person through a person's relationship with other persons. It is best known through the writings of the Anglicanism, Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu, who, drawing from his Christian faith, theologized Ubuntu by a model of forgiveness in which human dignity and identity are drawn from the image of God. Human beings are called to be persons because they are created in the image of God. Background The idea of Ubuntu philosophy, Ubuntu has always existed in the oral cultures of Southern Africa, but there appears to be three significant developments in its application to the peoples of Southern Africa that have endeared it to the larger world. The first development may be traced to the emergence of the concept in print at about 1846, when the concept was adopted as a post-colonial term used in reference to the return of African dignity after the ...
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