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African Biblical Hermeneutics Considering Ifá Hermeneutic Principles
Religions, 2023 African contextual biblical hermeneutics, practiced mainly among those from the southern hemisphere, is framed by conflicting academic approaches, methods, epistemologies, rationalities, etc.
Moïse Adéniran Adékambi
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Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics within the Context of African Biblical Hermeneutics: It’s Origin, Trends and Challenges [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and TheologyThis study delves into the intricate landscape of Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics within the context of African Biblical Hermeneutics, aiming to unravel its origins, discern trends, and confront challenges.
Richard Osei Akoto
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Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics in African Biblical Scholarship: Contributions of J.E.T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor [PDF]
Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and TheologyThe pattern of biblical hermeneutics in Africa was built on Euro-American philosophies, cultures and methodologies until the early 1960s. This necessitated a scholarly call for re-interpretation of the inherited interpretations and translations, as some ...
Ernest Jnr Frimpong +5 more
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ReligionsIn establishing the Christian faith on African soil, the first missionaries to Africa came along with the Bible. They were determined to share the word of God with the indigenous Africans. This was undertaken effectively; however, it came at a cost.
Emmanuel Kojo Ennin Antwi
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African Christian Theology and Christology: A Study of the Contributions of Kwame Bediako, John S. Mbiti, Justin Ukpong and Charles Nyamiti [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 The article discusses the scholarship of Kwame Bediako, John Mbiti, Justin Ukpong and Charles Nyamiti to decipher their contributed to the development of a framework for theology, Christology and biblical scholarship in Africa and the development of the ...
Edward Agboada
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Debriefing hermeneutics for a balanced reading of the biblical text
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 In this study, it is argued that the trust of previous (and existing) hermeneutical approaches of promoting ancient biblical texts as applicable to the everyday life of contemporary readers is not only imaginable but also too ambitious.
Mogomme A. Masoga
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Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021 Background: Even though the business of biblical interpretation in African perspectives is not as old as Western styled hermeneutics, African biblical hermeneutics is by no means inferior in orientation and context to Western methods of interpretation.
Peter. O. O. Ottuh, Moses Idemudia
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Decolonising biblical hermeneutics in the (South) African context
Acta Theologica, 2016 The recognition of social location as a heuristic device in biblical hermeneutics does not necessarily equate to the production of radical and alternative knowledge.
H. Ramantswana
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Acta Theologica, 2023 African biblical scholars have long advocated a shift in existing exegetical and hermeneutical approaches. The reasons include not simply the inadequacy of these approaches in dealing with the existential questions of contemporary African societies, but
M.K. Mensah
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 In African biblical scholarship, the concept of inculturation hermeneutics has come to be almost, if not always, linked to the late Professor Justin S. Ukpong, the Nigerian New Testament scholar.
Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele)
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