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The Author-Intended Meaning: The Priority of Scripture over Culture as a Key to the Future of African Christianity

Conspectus
The faithfulness and vitality of Christianity are inseparable from its hermeneutic. As the center of Christianity shifts to the Global South, the future of African Christianity depends on whether Scripture will interpret culture or culture Scripture. The
Kevin Smith
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What now of the Vashti character in the Hebrew Bible? Ruminating on the future of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians among emerging scholars in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016
Concerned about the relative absence of activities (including the writings) by members of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians within the Democratic Republic of the Congo Circle, Francophone context in general and her Mongolese context in ...
Marthe M. Kondemo
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The Case of ‘Suspected Adulteress’

Old Testament Essays, 2021
As studies have shown, marital sexual infidelity is attested in every society of the world. In African societies, adultery is not only strictly prohibited on social, moral and religious grounds but is also regarded, in some African cultures, as an ...
Alexander I. Abasili
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Biblical discourses and the construction of genders and sexualities in contemporary South Africa: A decolonial analysis

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The constructions of genders and sexualities in different global spaces continue to be influenced by Christian and imperial ideologies. In Africa, genders and sexualities were (mis)construed by colonial and missionary enterprises, and they continue to be
Themba Shingange
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Respecting the Ancestors

Old Testament Essays
Madipoane Masenya’s search for an interpretive approach that would enable her to read Proverbs and eventually other parts of the Hebrew Bible from an African-South African woman’s perspective led her to develop what she calls a bosadi approach to ...
Louis Cloete Jonker
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Sub-Saharan Reception of Masenya's Bosadi Approach

Old Testament Essays
Madipoane Masenya’s search for an interpretive approach that would enable her to read Proverbs and eventually other parts of the Hebrew Bible from an African-South African woman’s perspective led her to develop what she calls a bosadi approach to ...
Jorunn Bjerga, Knut Holter
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‘Forget your people and your father’s house’ (Ps 45:11): The Hebrew Bible, marriage rites and spousal abuse in contemporary Ghana

Verbum et Ecclesia
Spousal abuse is one of the foremost threats to peaceful coexistence in families the world over. In Ghana, stakeholders, particularly Christian leaders, have raised concerns about the increasing violence associated with spousal abuse, which sometimes ...
Michael K. Mensah, Comfort Max-Wirth, Alexander Salakpi   +2 more
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The Bible, African Spirituality, and Post-Modernity

African Christian Theology
Call for Papers for the First Annual International Hybrid Conference 2024 held at the Center of Biblical Studies, Research, and Development, West African Advanced School of Theology, Owerri, Nigeria, 4–6 December 2024.  Abstracts due by 10 November 2024.
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Rationale and design of the Heart-to-Heart study: A church-based intervention to reduce blood pressure in African Americans. [PDF]

Contemp Clin Trials, 2023
Cartwright Y, Tangney C, Ruppar T, Epting SM, Jenkins L, Julion W, Rothschild S, Zimmermann L, Avery E, Olinger T, Suzuki S, Lynch E.   +11 more
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Emphasizing Science: Black Pastors Encourage Awareness of Medical Information about COVID-19 Vaccine. [PDF]

Glob J Health Sci
Moore D, Caviness-Ashe N, Mansfield L, Onsomu EO.   +3 more
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