THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE STATE OF BIBLICAL THEOLOGY FOR AFRICAN ECCLESIOLOGY
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Past. Present, Future, Bible, Eccesiology.Abstract
Purpose: The main objective of the study is to establish the past, the present, and the future state of biblical theology for African Ecclesiology examined the birth, growth of Biblical theology from the apostolic, church Fathers’ era in a brief using it as a spring board for the future of Biblical theology in Africa.
Methodology: The paper employed descriptive, historical, philosophical deductions to pragmatically elicit points to be reckoned with.
Findings: The paper noted that Biblical theology was surnamed Dogmatics at the onset. Dogmatics existed as the rule for faith in all ecclesiastical practice till the time when scholars saw it fit that the Bible is capable of speaking for itself rather than rules that is devoid of sound Biblical text. There and then a scientific approach to Biblical interpretation gained the purview of the church. Ever since then, Biblical theological studies as a discipline had grown severally into several theological disciplines and it is still growing. The question now is what is going to be the future of Biblical theological interpretation in Africa? Several scholars in Africa are already coming up with new ideas that are scientific in the interpretations of the Scriptures in a way that is akin to the Africans unlike when the Bible is made to think it is a foreign religion. Unique contribution shall begin to come forth.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study recommends that while the proposal of the future of Biblical Theology is crucial and intriguing, as a worthwhile venture, this writer sounds a note of warning that biblical scholarship should not forget the root of biblical text
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