AFRICAN LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION IN AFRICA
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women to become: to become a new people in Christ, who are reformed by grace.
This is because the destiny of man is his divination, and the incarnation is the
divine proposal of humanity’s divinization, which is part of the historic-concrete
order of creation. The researcher, thus, employed the method of liberation theology
to study the experiences of women in Africa. The highlighting of major points in
liberation theology is to help the human person to reflect on the dignity of its
humanity. The hermeneutic method of inquiry was employed for the purpose of
this study.
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