Emmanuel Kojo’s research while affiliated with Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology and other places

One of the most global of all crises in the 21st century is the ecological crisis. The causes identified for environmental destruction from the 1960s were hinged on human attitudes. The ecological models proposed afterward did not adequately address the human. Thus, the problem still persists. The identification and understanding of the nature of the relationship that should exist between humans and the environment has been a bone of contention. Using the Qualitative Method, eco-theological themes and analysis and semantic analysis were employed in examining the ecological theories. One idea that sprang clearly from the study is the fact that humans and the earth are to be understood as relatives (kinsmen). This paper thus affirms and recommends the idea of kinship as a Christian ecological model that would effectively address human attitudes toward the environment. Keywords: The Ecological Crisis, Eco-Theology, Human-Earth/Land Relations, Ecological Models, Kinship, Old Testament

Israel is pictured in the OT as the segulla of YHWH, thus becoming his treasured or special possession through his redemptive love. This creates a special relationship between YHWH and Israel with obligations. How was Israel to respond to the redemptive love of God through which it became his elect? Through narrative analysis and the conceptual framework of redemption in the OT, this paper explores the OT theme of redemptive love of God in the book of Exodus. It traces and explains the redemptive love of God for his people and the consequences and the obligations of Israel in the face of this redemptive love. Due to this special love of YHWH, Israel was obliged to obey him through the observance of his commandments to remain his special people and a worshipping community. Obedience to God's commandment, meant to be Israel's reciprocal love for YHWH, was thus to become the determining factor in Israel's relationship to God. Nonetheless, Exodus witnesses as well to the infidelity of Israel in the face of its obligation to obey YHWH.

Undoubtedly, apocalyptic literature is among the difficult literature to understand and to interpret due to its literary genre and mode of communication which is often in the form of visions. Though weird symbols and images shrouded in secrets and coded language are the content of these visions, the literature [those in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures] has been both an inspiration and a mystery to Christians in particular and Ghanaian Christians in general. Apart from serving as a motivational tool for Christians to know that true authority and power belongs to God, and among others, the literature also offers hope to Ghanaian Christians of the impending judgment at the end of this age. Though the literature has not been rightly handled by some Ghanaian pastors and Christians, the unending effect has made people hope in the Lord. This paper, therefore, contributes to the general knowledge of apocalyptic literature and accentuates how its message in the Judeo-Christian scriptures have greatly influenced the beliefs, lifestyle, and thought pattern of Ghanaians in general, and contemporary Christianity in Ghana, in particular; making them live in consonance with the message of the biblical apocalyptic literature which encourage them to develop a certain kind of belief, thought pattern, and lifestyles different from an ordinary individual, and not otherwise.