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Culture in Biblical Interpretation

Old Testament Essays, 2021
African Cultural Hermeneutics is an approach in biblical interpretation that makes African socio-cultural context a subject of interpretation. This article shows how Adamo has deployed effectively Yoruba cultural elements in the development of this ...
Kunle Dada
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Assessing the Mode of Biblical Interpretation in the Light of African Biblical Hermeneutics: The Case of the Mother-Tongue Biblical Interpretation in Ghana

Religions
In 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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Review of Frederick Mawusi Amevenku and Isaac Boaheng, “Biblical Exegesis in African Context” [PDF]

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023
The book has nine chapters plus an introduction and concluding remarks with a foreword by Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh (PhD). Its content can be divided into two thematic parts. The first part, covering chs. 1–5 (pp. 1–42) is described variously as “elements
Michael F. Wandusim
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Feminist Biblical Interpretation

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Feminist biblical interpretation is a critical approach that seeks to deconstruct traditional interpretations of scripture that have perpetuated gender-based violence and marginalization.
L. Juliana Claassens
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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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Preunderstanding, Presuppositions and Biblical Interpretation

Religions, 2022
For contemporary biblical scholars, the recognition that everyone interprets a text through one’s presuppositions and preunderstanding is axiomatic.
Thomas A. Howe
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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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Global Wesleyan Encyclopedia of Biblical Theology

Theological Librarianship, 2021
This is a review of Robert D. Branson, ed. Global Wesleyan Encyclopedia of Biblical Theology. Kansas City: The Foundry Publishing, 2020. 463 pp. $55.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780834138230.
David Carr
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The missional church structure and the priesthood of all believers (Ephesians 4:7�16) in the light of the inward and outward function of the church

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
The missional church is a new consciousness which has been raised for the missionary sending of the church in the West to be a witness for the Kingdom of God in its own context. The missional church has returned mission to the centre of ecclesiology.
Timothy A. van Aarde
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Benefits of Biblical Interpretation to Christians

Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies, 2022
Biblical interpretation is the act of interpreting the bible for further understanding. It involves figuring out what God, through His human authors, wanted the biblical text to signify and accomplish.
Queen Ijeoma Sokwaibe, Emmanuel C. Asogwa   +1 more
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