The reconstruction of forms of African theology:towards effective biblical interpretation

BS The Bible

Anum, Eric Bortey ; Riches, J.K.

University:University of Glasgow

Department:School of Critical Studies

关键词: BS The Bible;   

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来源: University of Glasgow

【 摘 要 】

This thesis sets out to investigate current reconstruction of forms of African theology that is taking place in parts of Africa. The specific interest is to identify emerging biblicalinterpretativemodes from these theologies andseektosuggest ways of making them effective for the benefit of African communities of readers and the biblical academia as a whole.After a brief consideration of the contribution of historical critical interpretation, this thesis then focused specifically on the development of African scholarly readings. The specific interest in these African readings is ·to provide the necessary criteria whichwillensurethat critical scholarly readings canboth bedifferentiatedand derived from popular readings. My interest in popular readings is because of the major role they play in the provision of contextual components or the missing links that can only be obtained from ordinary readers, that the scholarly reader needs in his/her reconstruction of· African self-understanding. I have therefore looked at the attempts to structure the relationship between ordinary readers and scholarly readers and out of that has come the contribution to the theologies of reconstruction in Africa.In summary, to respond to the quest for acceptable critical models of reading the Bible using African cultural texts and world view, it has become necessary to provide recommendations forAfrican hermeneuts which would enhance theirreadings in order to make their contributions to scholarly biblical interpretation to the globalcommunity more effective. This is exactly what this thesis aims at achieving.