Institutional and Popular Interpretations of the Bible in Africa: Towards an Integration

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dc.contributor.authorNyende, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-19T14:04:02Z
dc.date.available2017-12-19T14:04:02Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.descriptionThis paper, examines how the Bible is interpreted in Africa’s theological institutions (including university)en_US
dc.description.abstractReligious Studies Departments and Faculties of Theology), as well as Africa’s churches, homes and open spaces, with the intention of finding out how the two can be best integrated for the sake of African Christian communities. I argue that we cannot venture a mutual relationship between the two ways of interpreting the Bible in Africa until we first establish the principles behind the explication of biblical texts in popular interpretations of the Bible in Africa. However, since we posses insufficient data on popular interpretations of the Bible in Africa to allow us to establish such principles, I propose that African biblical scholarship should undertake the task of collecting such data as an integral part of its scholarshipen_US
dc.identifier.citationNyende Peter Institutional and Popular Interpretations of the Bible in Africa: Towards an Integration Vol 119 Issue 2 pp. 59—66 The Expository Times Journal. 2007. Expository Times: SAGE Publications, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore DOI: 10.1177/0014524607084084 http://EXT.sagepub.comen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11951/96
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherExpository Timesen_US
dc.subjectBible - Africaen_US
dc.subjectBible - Popular Interpretationsen_US
dc.subjectBible - Institutional Interpretationsen_US
dc.titleInstitutional and Popular Interpretations of the Bible in Africa: Towards an Integrationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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