Political Science International(PSI)

President, Nchumbonga Lekelefac Research Institute, Oklahoma City, USA

Publications

• Review Article   
  Critical-Liberative Theology: Towards an Understanding of Januarius Asongu's Theology
  Author(s): George Chrysostom Nchumbonga Lekelefac*
  
  This article offers a systematic and contextual theological interpretation of Beyond Doctrine: A Critical-Liberative Theology of Faith and Emancipation [1]. Combining close textual analysis with semi-structured interviews conducted with the author between 2022 and 2026, the study reconstructs Asongu’s theological project as an integrated method uniting (i) liberation theology’s praxis-oriented criterion of truth, (ii) Newmanian doctrinal development as a grammar of reform without rupture, (iii) conscience- centered moral reasoning as the interior forum of responsible discernment, and (iv) a critical epistemology grounded in Asongu’s philosophical framework of Critical Synthetic Realism (CSR). The article argues that Critical-Liberative Theology (CLT) is best understood as a realist-liberationist method in which conscience mediates between doctrine’s historical .. Read More»
  

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