Powers, principalities, and the spirit : biblical realism in Africa and the West / Esther E. Acolatse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acolatse, Esther, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Africa.

Bible.

Powers (Christian theology).

Spiritual warfare.

Christianity--Africa.

Christianity.

Africa.

Christianity and culture--Africa.

Christianity and culture.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2018.

Summary:

Among the many factors that separate churches in the West from those of the global South, there may be no greater difference than their respective attitudes toward supernatural "powers and principalities." In this follow-up to her book For Freedom or Bondage? African theologian Esther Acolatse bridges the enormous hermeneutical gap not only between the West and global Christianity but also between the West and its own biblical-theological heritage. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Question of Perspective / Kwesi Dickson Dickson, Kwesi, Rudolf Bultmann Bultmann, Rudolf 21

2 Wink and the Powers: Embracing the Spirit? 67

3 Reclaiming "Myth": After Bultmann 97

4 Karl Barth in New Perspective: A Theology of the Spirit and the Powers 127

5 Contextualizing Ephesians 6: How Lived Is Our Theology? 162

6 Biblical Realism: The Demands of Contextual Hermeneutics 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802864055

0802864058

OCLC:

992578963

Publisher Number:

99975776291