What if the full "God fable" method is a neo-colonial imposition on the linguistic and philosophical point? might it bring about unmitigated mess ups in intercultural communique and improvement paintings? This paradigm-challenging ebook issues to the need, in mild of latest deadlock in intercultural knowing, of God's involvement within the come across among the West and the bulk global, in particular Africa. Failure to account for God, the cradle of mind's eye operative in human hearts and minds has ended in a black gap that deeply problems intercultural engagement among the West and others. whereas drawing on his own long term box event in Africa, the writer cites modern scholarly Western literature on philosophy, anthropology, "religion," and past. satirically, the West, which values dualism, rather than trying to percentage it with majority global humans, wrongly presupposes its universality. A proactive compliance to the countering of "racism" and to the demotion of affects of human mind's eye on figuring out give a contribution to this. powerful schooling has to be from identified to unknown, this article emphasizes. permitting African humans to construct figuring out on their lonesome epistemological foundations could be extra vital than exporting of pre-packaged languages and academic structures from the West.

"Jim Harries has a few splendidly illuminating tales to inform approximately how the Western international seems from Africa. despite how a long way one may possibly trust Jim's analyses of the problems at stake, we within the West have to pay attention those tales as we contemplate our personal states of religion and disbelief."
--Richard Briggs, St John's university, Durham, United Kingdom

"Jim's critique of anthropocentric western theology is welcome, arguable, and born of deep own perception. this can catalyze fruitful debate about the legitimacy of trying to deny God's life by way of mere human trust. it really is my prayer that his African insights, formed via a pointy ecu educational brain, plus over twenty years of residing and serving as an African, may problem us within the West to discover new geographical regions in debates approximately God."
--Clive G. Burnard, Senior Pastor, Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth, United Kingdom

"Harries by no means pulls punches. during this lively paintings, he keeps this custom of taking up tricky matters in ways in which may perhaps concurrently please, shock, and annoy you. he's taking the reader on a dizzying trip via varied concerns together with language, worldview, economics, racism, post-colonialism, conception and truth, and temporary missions. Intimate facility with African tradition and language make the e-book specifically priceless. Agree or disagree, Harries demanding situations us to considerate expertise of severe issues."
--Christopher Flanders, Abilene Christian University

Jim Harries has levels in theology, biblical interpretation, improvement, and agriculture. Following a decision to serve God in Africa, Jim has lived in Zambia after which Kenya on the grounds that 1988. Jim's ministry to indigenous church buildings, inclusive of Bible instructing and courting development, is engaged utilizing the Luo and Swahili languages. Jim's articles and books contain New Foundations for Appreciating Africa (2016). Jim chairs the Alliance for weak challenge (vulnerablemission.org).