Panel: CHRISTIAN HYMNS AS HISTORICAL SOURCE. AFRICAN LITURGICAL MUSIC AND THEIR THEOLOGICAL CONTENT.



259.2 - CORE CHRISTOLOGICAL AND PNEUMATOLOGICAL THEMES IN HYMNS COMPOSED WITHIN SELECTED CLASSICAL ROHO CHURCHES OF WESTERN KENYA

AUTHORS:
Samita Z. (Kenyatta University ~ Nairobi ~ Kenya)
Text:
Hymns serve an important liturgical and theological role in Christianity. This paper seeks to underscore in particular locally composed hymns in Selected Roho Churches of Western Kenya (African Divine Church and African Church of the Holy Spirit). Special focus will be on their theological content, particularly Christological and pneumatological. How does the theological content of these hymns reveal the efforts of African Christians, from an African worldview seek to understand and express the Christian concept of God through song.