Handbook of Christian Prophetism in Africa - (Studies of Religion in Africa) (Hardcover)

About the Book

Christian prophetism in African Christianity cannot ignore the history of Christian religious innovation in Africa from the early decades of the 20th century. Christian Prophetism in African has a conceptual blending and influence from the Bible and African Traditional religio-cultural ethoses.

Book Synopsis

More than half a century has passed since the first monographs on African Christian prophetism were published. The prophetic element was only the most dramatic and prominent part of developments that sought to bring the biblical material alive in ways that had not been experienced in the ecclesiology of Western mission Christianity. The ministries of African charismatic figures of the early 20th century were oriented towards the biblical phenomenon of the prophetic, and the related issue of divine or faith healing, sometimes even to the neglect of the use of bio-medical resources. The developments have been interrogated in religious studies, theology, and the sociology and psychology of religion showing how important these churches have been in the African public sphere.

About the Author

Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh, Ph.D. (2020) is an Associate Professor and the Rector of Perez University College, Ghana and adjunct faculty at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon Ghana. Research Associate, Department of New Testament and Related Literature, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests include New Testament studies, wealth and poverty in the Gospel of Lukan, Pentecostalism/Charismatic studies, and Christian prophetism. Aryeh is the chairman of the West Africa Association of Theological Institutions (WAATI). He is the Vice General Secretary of the Institute for Biblical Scholarship in Africa (IBSA), and a member of the prestigious Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS).
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Ph.D. (2000) is a professor of African Pentecostal and Charismatic theology. He is a fellow of the Ghana Academic Arts and Sciences and the presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church.
Knut Holter, Ph.D. (1993) teaches in the Department of Teacher Education, NLA University College, Bergen and Oslo (Norway), and he is also an Extra-ordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Holter holds a doctorate in Old Testament exegesis from the University of Oslo (1993) but for the last 25 years, his main research and publishing focus has been on African interpretive strategies vis-à-vis the Bible, cf. SIMBA: Site of Innovation and Method on Bible and Africa, https: //simb.africa.