
Christian Spirituality in Context: An African Perspective
Issue: Vol. 11 No. 12 2025 Issue Article 7 pp.669 – 681
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.202511127 | Published online 29th December, 2025.
© 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Christian Spirituality, Culture, Ecumenical and Missiological Dialogue, African Christianity
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Rev. Mrs Mary Fosu is the Senior Pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Amakom, Kumasi, Ghana, and the Vice President of the Ministers’ Conference of the Ghana Baptist Convention. She also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer and Chaplain at the Ghana Baptist University College. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.
Fosu, Mary. “Christian Spirituality in Context: An African Perspective.” E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies 11, no.12 (2025): 669 -681. https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.202511127.
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