Jesus in African tradition: the spirit of Christ in the Asante pre-Christian religio-cultural context

Abstract

The history of Christian expansion has revealed that whenever the Christian gospel enters a new cultural milieu, new questions are asked that have to do with the nexus between the gospel and human cultures. A major question that arises whenever the Christian gospel enters a new cultural context is: How should new converts relate to their cultural past? Or, how far can the gospel be adapted to fit into a culture without losing its essential message? This has been a major issue African Christians have had to grapple with upon their conversion.