This article analyzes the theological legacy of Tokunboh Adeyemo, a leading voice in African evangelical circles. In academic literature on African Christianity, African evangelical theologians are often accused of endorsing a biblicist or Westernized form of theology that fails to deeply engage with African realities. This study retraces Adeyemo’s contribution to the evangelical debates on mission after the International Congress on World Evangelization held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. It will be argued that, while Adeyemo undoubtedly was influenced by North American dualism, he increasingly distanced himself from Western theological concepts, advocating for a broad, holistic, contextual, and transformational understanding of mission. Thus, this study shows that categories commonly used to describe African evangelicalism, such as “biblicist,” “conservative,” “dogmatic,” and so on, do not do justice to the complexity, heterogeneity, and contextuality of African evangelicalism.

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福音作为一种生活：Tokunboh Adeyemo 和福音派关于宣教的辩论

本文分析了非洲福音派领袖托昆博·阿德耶莫 (Tokunboh Adeyemo) 的神学遗产。在有关非洲基督教的学术文献中，非洲福音派神学家经常被指责支持圣经主义或西化的神学形式，而这些神学形式未能深入了解非洲的现实。本研究回顾了阿德耶莫在1974年瑞士洛桑举行的世界福音传教国际大会之后对福音派宣教辩论的贡献。有人会说，尽管阿德耶莫无疑受到北美二元论的影响，但他越来越远离西方神学概念，倡导对使命有广泛的、整体的、情境的和变革性的理解。因此，这项研究表明，通常用来描述非洲福音派的类别，