1st Edition
Jesus, the Gospels, and African Christianity Interpreting Fasting and Prayer
Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction 2. Jesus Through the Gospels in African Context: Ancestor, Deity, and the One through Whom the African Christian Prays 3. Conceptualisation of Fasting and Prayer in African Christianity: African Instituted Churches’ (Aladura) Experience in Nigeria 4. Classification of Jesus’s Prayers in the Gospels and Implication for African Christianity 5. Jesus’s Identity (Matthew 16:16 and John 3:16) and African Christianity: Validating the Use of Jesus’s Name in Prayers 6. Fasting in Jesus’s Experience (Matthew 4:1-11): An Interpretation from African Christian and Pastoral Perspectives 7. Exorcism in Jesus’s Ministry (Mark 9:14-29) in the Context of Fasting and Prayer in African Christian Experience 8. Prayer Locations of Jesus in the Gospels and the Concept of Mountain as Sacred Space in African Christianity 9. The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-15): Theological Implication for Imprecation in African Christian Spirituality 10. Faith as Prayer Metaphor in Luke 18:1-8 and Its Implication for African Christianity 11. Conclusion and Suggestion for further Studies Bibliography Index.
Biography
John Arierhi Ottuh is a TA and doctoral student in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Canada, pursuing his second PhD in Ancient Judaism and African Religions. He earned a PhD in Religious Management, New Testament and Theological Studies from Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. He has been a senior lecturer and chair in the Department of Christian Religious Studies at Obong University, Nigeria. His work offers new ways to understand the connections/correlations between society, different religious traditions in the global north and south, and biblical literature.
