Inside the whirlwind : the book of Job through African eyes / Jason A. Carter ; foreword by Andrew F. Walls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Jason A., author.

Contributor:

Walls, Andrew F., writer of foreword.

Series:

African Christian studies series.

African Christian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Job--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Christianity--Africa.

Christianity.

Christianity--Equatorial Guinea.

Africa.

Equatorial Guinea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2017.

Summary:

How would ordinary African Christians interpret the figure and book of Job--the quintessential biblical book on suffering--from contexts of extreme poverty, tropical disease, and rampant suffering? How do African Christians culturally understand issues of theodicy and the nature of evil? What role does the devil play in African Pentecostalism? How does the biblical lament empower faith and foster hope for people living with HIV/AIDS? In what way does a theology of (eschatological) hope inform the spirituality and prayers of ordinary African believers in the midst of suffering? Inside the Whirlwind offers insight on these fascinating questions. Based upon the perspectives of Fang Christians in Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea (Central Africa), the thematic and theological reflections on evil, suffering, and hope emerging from sermons and Bible studies on the book of Job offer a remarkable window to view the main theological issues shaping grassroots African Christianity in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Part 1. The hermeneutics-culture-praxis triad. Readings of the book of Job as a window on African Christianity

The fang of Equatorial Guinea: their history, beliefs, and practices

An untold story of African Christianity: Presbyterian and Pentecostal expressions of the Christian faith in Equatorial Guinea

Part 2. Contextual readings of the book of Job: themes, theologies, and trajectories. Theodicy and the nature of evil: Job between God and the devil

The sting of retribution and the promise of lament: reading the book of Job from the experience of leprosy and HIV/AIDS

Hope in suffering: prayer, eschatology, and Job's final liberation

Conclusion: African Christianity between indigenization and diabolization

Appendix 1: The "pentecostal deliverance liturgy" of Apostle Agustín Edu Esono: "power against incurable sicknesses"

Appendix 2: Reading the book of Job at six distinct locations in Equatorial Guinea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 7, 2017).

ISBN:

9781498230704

1498230709