The Translation Principle in Christian History: A Discourse of the Cross-Cultural Diffusion of Anglicanismin Ikwerre Land 1895-2009
Undoubtedly, the demography of Christianity as a global religion has shifted inexorably to the Southern continents, especially Asia and Africa. However, much still remains to he seen in how the different Christian communities worldwide image, appropriate, and renegotiate Christian beliefs and practi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019
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Anglican theological review
Year: 2019, Volume: 101, Issue: 2, Pages: 237-258 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDE Anglican Church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
BIBLE translating
B CHRISTIANITY & culture B Africa B Religion B Church History B IKWERE (African people) B History B Nigeria |
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| Summary: | Undoubtedly, the demography of Christianity as a global religion has shifted inexorably to the Southern continents, especially Asia and Africa. However, much still remains to he seen in how the different Christian communities worldwide image, appropriate, and renegotiate Christian beliefs and practices in terms of local sensitivity or cidtural contexts. This paper contends that the "translation principle'' in Christian history has propped up the geographical and cross-cultural diffusion of the gospel among different cultures and ethnicities. Utilizing the ethno-historical methodology, the paper diagrams how the Ikwerre, with their own culture, religion, and social norms, received, interpreted, and transmitted the gospel to fit into the universal frame of global Christianity. The paper then goes on to illustrate this in relation to the controversies and challenges that confront the translation of the vernacular Ikwerre Bible. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-6214 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Anglican theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/000332861910100203 |