Handbook of Christian Prophetism in Africa (Studies of Religion in Africa)

Aryeh, Daniel (EDT)/ Asamoah-Gyadu, Kwabena (EDT)/ Holter, Knut (EDT)

Brill（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 796 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004734005

Full Description

More than half a century has passed since the first monographs on African Christian prophetism were published. The prophetic element was only the most dramatic and prominent part of developments that sought to bring the biblical material alive in ways that had not been experienced in the ecclesiology of Western mission Christianity. The ministries of African charismatic figures of the early 20th century were oriented towards the biblical phenomenon of the prophetic, and the related issue of divine or faith healing, sometimes even to the neglect of the use of bio-medical resources. The developments have been interrogated in religious studies, theology, and the sociology and psychology of religion showing how important these churches have been in the African public sphere.

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword: Reinvention of the Prophetic in Contemporary African Christianity

 J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Introduction

 Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu and Knut Holter

Part 1: Prophetism in the Old Testament and African Christianity

1 Prophetism in Ancient Israel as a Template for African Contemporary Churches

 Grace O. Olajide

2 "Your Sons and Daughters Will Prophesy": Prophetic Succession in African Charismatic Christianity on the Old Testament Traditions

 Mark S. Aidoo

3 Prophecy and Influence: a Reading of 2 Chronicles 34:22-33 in the Context of Ghana

 Emem Opoku-Agyemang

Part 2: Prophetism in the New Testament/Early Christianity and African Christianity

4 Prophecy in Paul's Theology and Its Implications for Prophetic Ministries in African Indigenous Churches in Nigeria

 Michael Deji Olajide

5 Prophetism in the Early Church and Contemporary Church in Africa: the Case of Montanism (New Prophecy)

 Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh

Part 3: Prophetism in African Initiated/Independent/ Indigenous Churches

6 African Independent Churches: the Trailblazers of Prophetic Ministry in African Christianity

 Thomas Oduro

7 "The Word Comes to the Element, and So There Is a Sacrament"

Sacramentalization of Religious Practices with Water and Oil in the Ministry of an Aladura Prophet in Nigeria

 Knut Holter

8 Prophetism, and Christian Mission among the Luo of Nyanza, 1900-1920

 Francis Omondi

Part 4: Prophetism, Media, Liturgy, Nationality, Mission, and Pandemic

9 The Digital Space as a Prophetic Space: Opportunities and Challenges for African Christianity

 Christian Tsekpoe, Joseph Osafo and Eric Kallai

10 Assessment of the Prophetic Ministry among Contemporary Nigerian Churches

 Ayotunde Olayori Oguntade

11 Gender and Prophetism in Aladura Churches of Nigeria

 Ruth M. Oyeniyi

12 Contemporary Prophetism and Evangelical Theological Education in Nigeria

 Janet Omotola Adeyanju

13 Contemporary Prophetic Christianity in Africa and the Covid-19 Pandemic: a Theological Examination of a Response from Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa

 Jacob Kwame Opata

14 Prophetism and Nationalism in Nigeria

 Friday Ifeanyi Ogbuehi

15 Spiritual Warfare in African Christianity: a Reformed Perspective on the Fear of Curses and Witchcraft

 Kevin Muriithi Ndereba

16 Music and Prophetism in African Pentecostalism

 Gabriel Ademola Oyeniyi

Postscript

17 Towards a Better Understanding of Prophetism in Africa?

 Knut Holter

18 The Bible, Tradition, and Prophetism in Africa

 Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh

Index