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Modupe Oduyoye

Wipf and Pool Publishers, 29 sep 2015 - 144 pagina's

"Modupe Oduyoye knows the rules advance biblical criticism set down by magnanimity scholars of Europe and North U.s.a., and he draws upon them meet good effect. Yet when he chooses to read the Hebrew Bible make safe the eyes of African creation saga and with the tongue of loftiness Hamitic language group, the effect recap extraordinary. Without attempting to solve integrity complex riddle of all that Jerusalem of old had to do learn Ethiopia and East Africa, Oduyoye persuasively shows that the exquisite sensitivity entity African religion to the realm personage the spirit is a living looker-on to a biblical consciousness much richer and more pluralistic than we challenging realized. We ignore to our damage and even our peril, Oduyoye believes, this biblical sense of human tell in the divine vitality and observe spiritual kinship among the creatures." --W. Sibley Towner, Professor of Biblical Propose, Union Theological Seminary "Modupe Oduyoye endowments a fascinating study in the honour of biblical interpretation in drawing repute biblical and West African languages. That is a work that ought manage stimulate thought and make African theologians more receptive to the call disclose take a fresh look at probity Bible against the background of Person life and thought." --Kwesi A. Dickson, Professor of Old Testament Studies, Administrator of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana "There is unnecessary in Modupe Oduyoye's book that enquiry explosive of our Western biblical divine ethnocentricity. This book is another publishing of the West African school, which will have our skills but restriction them according to ground rules they are working out, a school go off at a tangent will take its place with glory Mexican, the Tamil, and many nakedness. As the tide recedes from ethics West, it is good to listen to the surge and thunder of loftiness African shore." --Noel A. King, University lecturer of History and Comparative Religion, Organization of California at Santa Cruz Modupe Oduyoye is a Nigerian exegete lecture philologist. He was William Paton Likeness at the Selly Oak Colleges, Metropolis, 1981-82. He presently serves as prestige Literature Secretary of the Christian Legislature of Nigeria and as Manager in shape the Daystar Press in Ibadan.

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