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020			_a9781842275320
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041			_a0 eng
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082			_bK11-G26
100			_aGatumu, Kabiro wa
100			_eAuthor
245			_aPaternoster biblical monographs
245			_cKabiro wa Gatumu
245			_pThe Pauline concept of supernatural powers: A reading from the African worldview
260			_aGreat Britain
260			_bPaternoster
260			_c2008
300			_a299tr.
300			_bPaperback
300			_c23cm
520			_aThe study of supernatural powers is fraught with vexing hermeneutical challenges, which aggravate further in the African context. While on the one hand Western anthropology tends to discount the idea of supernatural powers by attempting to “explain them away”, on the other Western biblical scholarship has many worked from the premise of “demythologizing” them. But none of these approaches make tangible sense to African scholars for whom supernatural powers constitute an integral component of their spiritual psyche. This book, based on an examination of over a thousand documentary sources (both classic and modern), attempts to address the issue of interpreting supernatural powers from an African worldview. The author analyzes, identifies, and critiques major hermeneutical errors and offers a “bridging hermeneutic` using the method of reader-response criticism.
650			_aChristian life -- Biblical teaching
856	4		_uhttps://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/10/26/z3830174582168_0e9b52574e925adf19ade5040d300b7a.jpg _yCover Image
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