The promise of attending to literary context for contextual biblical hermeneutics in Africa
For important reasons, African contextual hermeneutics raises the main question: “What does the Scripture mean to us and our community?”. This article asserts that the reader-centred approach tends to allow the voice of the community to ring louder than the voice of Scripture. Repercussions can inc...
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Main Author: | D.W. Ellington |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2021-12-01
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Series: | Acta Theologica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/5840 |
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