The Role of the ‘Ordinary Reader’ in Gerald O West’s Hermeneutics

Akper, Godwin I.

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“…The Aids victims like the oppressed in the Bible (cf Mosala 1989) did not write the report on their reading strategies. One hears their voices through the printed work of a healthy well-trained biblical scholar, similar to the situation that exists between the "ordinary reader" and socially engaged biblical scholar (Akper 2005).…”

Section: The 'Next Stage' In the African Agencymentioning

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We the Poor Must Abandon Our Wheelchairs and Begin to Walk Unaided: On African Agency Discourse

Akper

2013

Scriptura

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After mapping the current notions of African agency discourse, the article suggests a more dialogical approach to the discourse, the partnership notion of African agency discourse. This suggestion is based on the view that African leaders and academics are apparently not yet ready to walk unaided. Therefore, the article proposes a broadened African agency that involves other races. Specifically, it stresses the need for a discourse that goes beyond a black identity as a category for an African agency discourse to be African proper. The essay further suggests that the contribution of the "other" in the discourse should be cherished by black and white discussants.

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Section: The 'Next Stage' In the African Agencymentioning

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We the Poor Must Abandon Our Wheelchairs and Begin to Walk Unaided: On African Agency Discourse

Akper

2013

Scriptura

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“…One weakness in this type of reading is the unwillingness of the ordinary bible reader to go through the rigour of critical biblical study. However, Akper (2005) is of the view that the voices of the "ordinary readers" in the collaborative reading need to be clearly evident, so that it does not seem as though the socially engaged biblical scholar is simply reading through the "ordinary readers." This is a new trend in African Biblical scholarship and, of course, it is advocating that the ordinary reader should also be put into consideration when doing a critical study of the bible (Okure, 1993:77).…”

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Posing the historical Jesus question and the goal of African biblical scholarship

Ottuh¹

2015

Og J. Af Stud

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Using the historical Jesus research method, the aim of this paper is to pose the Historical Jesus question in Africa and to enumerate the goal of African Biblical scholarship. The study showed that while the first quest sought to reconstruct the biography of Jesus from the New Testament materials in the 19 th century and separated the Jesus of the New Testament from the Jesus of history, the second quest in the 20 th century posed the question in terms of what, in the New Testament, can be attributed to the historical person of Jesus with some amount of certainty. Moreover, the third quest in the late 20 th century, posed the question of understanding Jesus as a human person among his contemporaries and sought to reconstruct the historical figure of the man Jesus against the background of the history, culture and society of first century Palestine and the Roman Empire. The study also showed that the goal of African Biblical scholarship has to do with: making the bible available for the ordinary readers; uncritical reading to critical reading of the Bible, faith building; impacting society; integration; bridging gaps; and evangelization. The paper also argued that the western method used from the experience of the enlightenment in posing the Historical Jesus question cannot build African Christianity; hence it becomes pertinent to build a Christology that is both scholarly and congenial with African Christian experience. The study recommended that African scholars be allowed to develop and pose the Historical Jesus question and answer contextually from an African Christian perspective and as such, it should also be accorded its rightful respect among committee of scholars.

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Reading the Bible, Learning Ourselves: A Contextual Bible Study with Culturally Hybrid Youth

Cariaga

2022

Religious Education

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The Role of the ‘Ordinary Reader’ in Gerald O West’s Hermeneutics

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Cited by 5 publications

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We the Poor Must Abandon Our Wheelchairs and Begin to Walk Unaided: On African Agency Discourse

We the Poor Must Abandon Our Wheelchairs and Begin to Walk Unaided: On African Agency Discourse

Posing the historical Jesus question and the goal of African biblical scholarship

Reading the Bible, Learning Ourselves: A Contextual Bible Study with Culturally Hybrid Youth

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