Created for Redemption

Created for Redemption advances a constructive theological anthropology by retrieving African and patristic perspectives to argue that humanity was created for communion, glory, and participation in God's life from the beginning. Challenging Western assumptions that the incarnation is merely a response to the fall, the book situates Christ's embodiment as the telos toward which creation was ordered. Drawing on African cosmologies, early Christian theologians, and contemporary theology, Lucas B. Ndaro examines how sin, death, and human destiny are reinterpreted when viewed through the risen Christ, whose glorified humanity reveals the true end of human nature. The result is a theological vision in which redemption perfects rather than replaces creation and in which the Christian gospel is understood not as escape from the world but as its transformation into incorruptible life.