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Biblical interpretation during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from Africa
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Biblical interpretation and/or hermeneutics is largely influenced by context and prevailing events and/or issues. This is attested by many scholars in the field.
Daniel N.A. Aryeh, Victor V.S. Molobi
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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African Christianity and the Bible
Journal of the Council for Research on ReligionHistorically, issues relating to the critical role of the Bible in gospel proclamation and its contextual relevance across diverse socio-political milieus have dominated the theological and missiological landscapes of the Christian Church.
Clement O. Oyelakin
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Interpretations of the Tower of Babel narrative in the African context
Acta Theologica, 2014 Biblical scholarship from the African context provides possible new and creative perspectives for the interpretation of the Tower of Babel narrative because of uniquely African questions that structure the interpretative process.
M. Rathbone
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Black Humanism: Sameness and Difference in Being Human and Being Black in the United Kingdom
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay outlines a variety of responses to a central question pertaining to Black humanism: namely, what does it mean to be a Black human, given the existence of systemic racism within the Body of Christ and in many White majority societies in the African Diaspora, in this case, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
Anthony G. Reddie
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Imagining the Invisible: Judicial Epistemology, Carceral Regulation, and the Liberal State
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In many systems judges exercise judicial review over prison officials' decisions. However, judges are often symbolically, institutionally, and practically distant from prison realities. In the current paper, we explore how judges negotiate their limited epistemological awareness of prison through the lens of epistemic injustice.
Netanel Dagan, Adiel Zimran
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
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Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics [electronic resource] : Conscience and Scripture /
, 2019 The volume presents illuminating research carried out by international scholars of Locke and the early modern period. The essays address the theoretical and historical contexts of Locke’s analytical methodology and come together in a multidisciplinary ...
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A journal for biblical, theological and / or contextual hermeneutics?
, 2020 This contribution reflects on the current sub-title of the journal Scriptura, namely Journal for Biblical, Theological and Hermeneutics . It showsthat this has been a core interest of the journal over a period of forty years.
Conradie, Ernst M., Ernst M. Conradie
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