Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture

About Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture

The Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture is a postgraduate research and training Institute fully accredited by the National Accreditation Board of the Ministry of Education as a tertiary institution with a Presidential Charter to award its own degrees. It is a research university promoting African innovation and excellence and dedicated to the study and documentation of Christian history, thought and life in Ghana and in Africa as a whole, in relation to their African setting and to world Christianity. ACI seeks to strengthen Christian witness in the modern Africa and world context through Christian scholarship.

Named after two past great scholars of the Twi language and pioneer figures in the cultural witness of the Church in Ghana, Clement Anderson Akrofi and Johannes Gottlieb Christaller, the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture (ACI) (formerly Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Centre for Mission Research and Applied Theology, ACMC) seeks to be at the cutting edge of the church’s mission and encounter with society and culture in Ghana, Africa and the wider world.

The Institute stands in a tradition that combines piety, creativity and academic excellence in the furtherance of the witness to the gospel in Ghana and across Africa.

This was the hallmark of the training given in the historic Akropong Seminary whose buildings, (Basel House in Akropong-Akuapem), constructed in the 1840s and 1860s but renovated in 1992, and expanded in 1996-1998, the Institute now occupies.

The Institute was formally established in 1987 as an independent body, a company limited by guarantee and registered under the Companies Code as a charity. The legal and administrative structures of the Institute were designed with a view to creating an institution that would be sustainable, financially self-supporting and sufficiently open to serve also the needs of the wider Christian and academic communities.

The staff members and students seek to model Christian community, meeting for daily worship as the accompaniment of academic and pastoral activities.

OUR VISION

To be a pace-setting academic and pastoral institution, training Christian workers and leaders for effective mission in the African Context.

OUR MISSION

To

Develop academic programmes that provide adequate tools for serious and creative research into African Christianity and the African contribution to world Christianity, as well as to offer new opportunities for meaningful and relevant theological research and publication.
Serve the wider Christian community in Ghana, Africa and world-wide, by focusing its research and training on issues of Christian mission in the African context, in order to help the Christian community in Africa better understand its task and witness more effectively to the Kingdom of God in Africa and in the wider world.
Our Values

• Pursuing excellence in both its academic
• Remaining faithful to, and expounding within
• Exhibiting in its internal relationships
• Understanding and communicating

Our Objectives

• To provide training in mission research
• To co-operate with other academic
• To facilitate study and continuing education
• To assemble relevant literature, documentation
• To maintain a community life marked by
• To be as much as possible a living laboratory

Courses & Programmes

MASTER OF ARTS (MA)

• Master of Arts [MA] (Theology and Mission) (Intake: August)
• MA (Theology and Mission – Holistic Mission and Development Option) (Intake: February)
• MA (Theology and Mission – Biblical Studies Option) (Intake: February)
• MA (Theology and Mission – Pentecostal Studies Option) (Intake:
  February)
• MA (Theology and Mission – Mother Tongue Theology Option) (Intake: February)
• MA (Theology and Mission – Leadership Option) (Intake: February)
• MA (Theology and Mission – Bible and Science Option) (Intake:
  February)
• MA (Theology and Mission – World Christianity) (Intake: February)

MASTER OF THEOLOGY

OPTIONS:
1. African Christianity (AC)
2. Bible Translation & Interpretation (BTI)

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHD)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theology (Intake: January/August)

The Doctor of Philosophy programme is in Theology, with a focus on African and World Christianity or Biblical Studies in the African context. PhD candidates who have not completed the Postgraduate Research Degree course work at ACI will be required to complete the courses during the first year.

There is a NEW MTh/PhD Modular Coursework Option offered every August. This is an intensive programme of two one month sessions conducted every August and would therefore take two years to complete. The writing of a dissertation/thesis follows immediately after examinations. AUGUST 2015.

RESEARCH CENTRES

• CENTRE FOR INTERFAITH STUDIES AND ENGAGEMENT IN AFRICA (CISEA)
• CENTRE FOR GOSPEL AND CULTURE ENGAGEMENT (CEGACE)
• CENTRE FOR EARLY AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY (CEAC)

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