RT Article
T1 Reading African-Wise: Exodus 3.1-14 as Interpreted in the Lumpa Church of Alice Lenshina in Zambia
JF Feminist theology
VO 31
IS 1
SP 20
OP 33
A1 Kangwa, Jonathan
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1815282452
AB 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.
K1 Bible Interpretation
K1 reading African-wise
K1 Alice Lenshina
K1 Lumpa Church
K1 Exodus 3.1-14
DO 10.1177/09667350221112883