University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2020
Footnote:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Description:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Contents -- 1 Introduction to the study -- 2 Exegesis of the Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:9b–13) -- 3 The Ghanaian context -- 4 Hermeneutical setting and scripture reception in Ghana -- 5 Contemporary reception of the Lord’s Prayer in Ghana -- 6 Conclusion: Reading the Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:9b–13) from a Ghanaian perspective -- Bibliography -- Index of References -- Index of Names
This study explores the reception history of the Lord's Prayer in the Ghanaian context. After presenting the current state of research in the Lord's Prayer from an exegetical perspective, this book discusses a wide field of hermeneutical approaches, such as inculturation biblical hermeneutics, mother-tongue biblical hermeneutics, African feminist biblical hermeneutics, liberation biblical hermeneutics and post-colonial biblical hermeneutics. Taking the discussions of these approaches together, it was realised that the general hermeneutical setting in Ghana (and Africa as whole) is reader-centred, i.e. the readers play an active role in the hermeneutical process and the results of the hermeneutical process are aimed at the readers’ contexts and the transformation of those contexts