The study of supernatural powers is fraught with vexing hermeneutical challenges, which aggravate further in the African context. While on the one hand Western anthopology tends to discount the idea of supernatural powers by attempting to ‘explain them away’, on the other Western biblical scholarship has mainly worked from the premise of ‘demythologizing’ them. But sense to African scholars fro whom supernatual 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 herneneutical errors and offers a ‘bridging hermeneutic’ using the method of reader response criticism.

The Pauline Concept of Supernatural Powers
A Reading from the African Worldview
Foreword by James D.G. Dunn
Paternoster Biblical Monographs-PBM
by Kabiro wa Gatumu
Paternoster Press, 2008
xxvi + 299 pages, English
Paper
ISBN: 9781842275320
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