Jesus, the Gospels, and African Christianity

Interpreting Fasting and Prayer

John Arierhi Ottuh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-16359-6 (ISBN)

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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.

John Arierhi Ottuh is a TA and a Ph.D student in Religious Studies at McMaster University, Canada, pursuing his research on Ancient Judaism and African Religions.

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 Jesus’s Prayers in the Gospels and Implication for African Christianity 5. Jesus’s Identity (Matthew 16:16 and John 3:16) and African Christianity: Validating the Use of Jesus’s Name in Prayers 6. Fasting in Jesus’s Experience (Matthew 4:1-11): An Interpretation from African Christian and Pastoral Perspectives 7. Exorcism in Jesus’s 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 Lord’s 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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.6.2026
Reihe/Serie	Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-041-16359-2 / 1041163592
ISBN-13	978-1-041-16359-6 / 9781041163596
Zustand	Neuware