This book considers how teaching in the Gospels and the practice of prayer and fasting can be interpreted in an African context. It highlights African understandings of key aspects of Christology, analysing Jesus’s identity and embodiment of prayer.
This book considers how teaching in the Gospels and the practice of prayer and fasting can be interpreted in an African context. It highlights African understandings of key aspects of Christology, analysing Jesus’s identity and embodiment of prayer. The author engages with a New African Biblical Criticism approach and draws on the historical context of first-century Judeo-Christianity. Critiquing certain practices within African Christianity, the study encourages a shift away from focusing on the duration, location and materialistic outcomes of prayer and fasting towards an emphasis on both spiritual and character development. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of African religion, theology and biblical studies.
Acknowledgments Preface
1. Introduction
2. Jesus Through the Gospels in
African Context: Ancestor, Deity, and the One through Whom the African
Christian Prays
3. Conceptualisation of Fasting and Prayer in African
Christianity: African Instituted Churches (Aladura) Experience in Nigeria
4.
Classification of Jesuss Prayers in the Gospels and Implication for African
Christianity
5. Jesuss Identity (Matthew 16:16 and John 3:16) and African
Christianity: Validating the Use of Jesuss Name in Prayers
6. Fasting in
Jesuss Experience (Matthew 4:1-11): An Interpretation from African Christian
and Pastoral Perspectives
7. Exorcism in Jesuss Ministry (Mark 9:14-29) in
the Context of Fasting and Prayer in African Christian Experience
8. Prayer
Locations of Jesus in the Gospels and the Concept of Mountain as Sacred Space
in African Christianity
9. The Lords Prayer (Matthew 6:9-15): Theological
Implication for Imprecation in African Christian Spirituality
10. Faith as
Prayer Metaphor in Luke 18:1-8 and Its Implication for African Christianity
11. Conclusion and Suggestion for further Studies Bibliography Index.
John Arierhi Ottuh is a TA and doctoral student in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Canada, pursuing his second PhD in Ancient Judaism and African Religions. He earned a PhD in Religious Management, New Testament and Theological Studies from Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. He has been a senior lecturer and chair in the Department of Christian Religious Studies at Obong University, Nigeria. His work offers new ways to understand the connections/correlations between society, different religious traditions in the global north and south, and biblical literature.
