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This chapter investigates a political reception of the New Testament in
Ghana from 2017–2023 which is tentatively labelled as Ofori-Atta phenom
enon. In the stated years, Ken Ofori-Atta, then Finance Minister of Ghana,
made consistent recourse to biblical texts during his presentations of an
nual government budget statements to the Ghanaian Parli...
The Africanisation of Christianity in Africa is closely linked to the availability of the Bible in African mother tongues. However, mission-led Bible translation in Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not solely the work of European missionary linguists. Africans, such as Ludwig Adzaklo of the Bremen Mission, played essential...
Ludwig Adzaklo was an outstanding, competent, mother-tongue Ewe Bible translator
and a dedicated teacher and catechist of the North German Missionary Society (also
known as the Bremen Mission) in former German Togoland (present-day southeast of
Ghana and Togo).
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 of biblical interpretation” (p. xv), “foundational principles” (p. xv), and “basic elements of...
This study investigates the history, proponents, constituting elements,
challenges, methodology, and future directions of Mother-tongue Biblical
Hermeneutics (MTBH) as an emerging hermeneutical approach in African
biblical studies. It observes that the translation of the Bible into African
mother -tongues has influenced the emergence of MTBH. Based...
The liturgical reception of the Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:9–13 par. Luke 11:2b–4) is well attested and still evident in Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox circles. For instance, in a reformed worship it is usual to hear varied versions of the statement: “And now as our saviour Christ has taught us, we humbly pray: ‘Our Father who art in heaven (…)’.” It...
