Reading African-Wise: Exodus 3.1-14 as Interpreted in the Lumpa Church of Alice Lenshina in Zambia
African biblical scholars postulate that biblical interpretation in Africa involves linking biblical texts to African contexts. This means that the African interpreter of a biblical text focuses on its possible relevance in an African context rather than on the socio-historical background of the com...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2022
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| In: |
Feminist theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 20-33 |
| RelBib Classification: | AZ New religious movements CD Christianity and Culture FD Contextual theology HB Old Testament KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church |
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Lumpa Church
B Alice Lenshina B reading African-wise B Bible Interpretation B Exodus 3.1-14 |
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| Summary: | African biblical scholars postulate that biblical interpretation in Africa involves linking biblical texts to African contexts. This means that the African interpreter of a biblical text focuses on its possible relevance in an African context rather than on the socio-historical background of the community that produced the text or on its literary form. The primary task of the reader of the Bible is then to engage the biblical text with an African context in order to (re-)construct a meaning that by Africans is perceived as life-affirming. This article considers the interpretation of Exodus 3.1-14 in the Lumpa Church of Alice Lenshina in Zambia, showing how the African context shapes an understanding of the Bible. The Lumpa Church was an African Independent Church, founded by Alice Lenshina in opposition to the teachings of the Free Church of Scotland missionaries in North Eastern Zambia. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/09667350221112883 |