RT Article
T1 African Biblical Studies: An Introduction to an Emerging Discipline
JF Currents in biblical research
VO 15
IS 2
SP 149
OP 178
A1 Mbuvi, Andrew M.
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1559472014
AB African Biblical Studies (ABS) can be characterized both as innovative and reactionary: Innovative, because it refuses to be confined by the methodologies, ancient concerns, and principles that govern biblical studies in the ‘west’ (used throughout this article to refer to the majority Euro-American scholars while recognizing the presence of other groups), and instead charts a course that is more interested in making biblical interpretation relevant to present realities. Reactionary, because its driving force is partly a critique of the inadequacy of western biblical studies in providing meaningful responses to concerns that are pertinent to African communities. A genuine ABS is therefore an amalgamation of multiple interpretive methods, approaches and foci that reflect a creative engagement of the African cosmological reality and the Bible.
K1 African Biblical Interpretation
K1 African Biblical Studies
K1 AFRICAN cosmology
K1 African Theology
K1 Bible : Criticism, interpretation, etc.
K1 Bible Translation
K1 Communitarianism
K1 Feminist Hermeneutics
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 hermeneutics of suspicion
K1 inculturation hermeneutics
K1 liberation hermeneutics
K1 Postcolonialism
DO 10.1177/1476993X16648813