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- ItemAcculturation of Christian Message in Africa: The 21stcentury Challenges(Journal Of Philosophy And Nature (JPN), 2011) Dairo, AfolorunsoThe Western missionary approach to African Christianity was generally done in such a way that African culture and way of life were somewhat denigrated and negated In this approach, missionary Christianity did not develop a relevant theological and musicological link between African traditional religions and cultures and the Christian Gospel. Hence, Western missionaries failed to develop a relevant Biblical theology of African religions, cultures and society. This then made African theologians and scholars reacted and responded to these apparent failures and weaknesses of the missionary approach and legacy by developing their own African Biblical Theology. A theology that is indigenous to Africa, is the one said to have been produced using African thoight, religion and cultural categories. It is a theology produced within context, which reject the richness of the pre- Christian African heritage. This paper therefore made an attempt at examining the challenges facing the 2 r century African Theologians with the view to recommend how best to acculturate the Christian message in an acceptable way for African Christians.
- ItemThe Administration of the Church: A Case Study of Apostolic Faith Church, Nigeria(NATHADEX PUBLISHERS, 2008) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemAfrican Biblical Theology: The Problem of Moving from Text to Context(JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2011-05) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemAn Assessment of Church Leadership in Nigeria - In The Light Of Leadership Qualifications in I Timothy 3:1-7(Nigerian Association for Biblical Studies (NABIS) Ibadan, 2009) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemBiblical Interpretation in an African Pluralistic Society: The Contemporary Challenges in Nigeria(Crowther Journal of Theology and Missions, 2016-11) Dairo, AfolorunsoAfrican Biblical hermeneutics as science of interpreting the Bible inAfrican context has its guidelines — African Interpretative Methods and various Interpretative Formulae. These methods are not exclusive of Western methods as they compliment themselves and must be used by African Christian Theologians complimentarily. The use of these methods is not without its challenges because the scriptures are not just ordinary texts but texts which human beings need to understand and the principles of understanding any text also apply to the Bible in order to deal with the Bible as an organic whole. In addition, the Bible must be made to address all human challenges in Africa. To do this successfully, the works of leading African Theologians were reviewed and suggestions and recommendations for better African Christian Theology brought to the limelight
- Item'Born Again' Christian Sceptics and Political Democratic Progress(Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies, 2009-06) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemChristian Ethics and Socio-Political Development in Nigeria(Department of Religious Studies, Ogun State University, 1997) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemChristianity and Civil Government: The Case of Rev. Prof. Chief Samuel Oyinloye Abogunrin(Publication of the Association for the Study or Religions (NASR), 2006) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemChristianity and Healing: The Yoruba Experience(Nigerian Association for the Study of Religions and Education, 1995) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemChristianity and HIV/AIDS Scourge in Nigeria: The Issue of Abstinence and Faithfulness(NIGERIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES (NABIS), 2006) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemChurch Leadership in Nigeria in the Light of Leadership Qualifications in Timothy 3:1-7(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014) Dairo, AfolorunsoGenerally, effectiveness of any leader is measured by his ability to gain compromise and dedication to Organizational objectives. Leader must possess the capability to influence the workers to work together willingly with confidence and keenness. These could be learnt, improved and developed. Church leadership is even more demanding and this is why Paul the Apostle in the pastorals lists what should constitute the qualifications for church leaders. But unfortunately, most church leaders in Nigeria fall short of these requirements and yet still glory in being led by the spirit of God even at the verge of making gross administrative errors. This is why this paper assessed church leadership in Nigeria, aiming at pointing out the inadequacies when compared with Pauline leadership qualifications in 1Titnothy 3:1-7 and recommending appropriately
- ItemChurch Leadership in Nigeria: Combining Spiritual and Organizational Techniques(Nigerian Association for the Study of Religions (NASR), 2004) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemContextualization and Exegesis:an Introduction(Amat Printing & Publishing, 2000) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemDecolonizing Biblical Scholarship in Africa: The Problems of Deculturalisation and Mis-education(Insight: Journal of Religious Studies, 2005) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemThe Ethics of the Hereafter in Yoruba Folk-Lore(THE YORUBA FOLKLORE SEMINAR COMMITTEE, 1997) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemGod and inculturation theology In Africa(The Nigerian Association for the Study of Religions (NASR), Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2005) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemHermeneutical Methods in Biblical Interpretation in Africa Matters Arising(JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIETY VOLUME, 2016-04) Dairo, AfolorunsoAfrica is a continent with a variety of cultures; such complexities make any meaningful study a bit difficult. Howbeit, a careful biblical hermeneutics will highlight the importance of the African context in biblical interpretation. Hermeneutical method emphasizes the context of the reader rather than that of the audience. It is from this method that African Biblical hermeneutics has been developed. African biblical hermeneutics is a contextual method of biblical criticism that presents a paradigm shift because of the new demands emanating from the various questions raised by Africans in their quest for appropriate biblical texts. Essentially, it seeks to make a to and fro move, from reader to text and to context (as in the traditional approach), to new context (African) to new text (contextualization) to new reader (African reader). Focus is here placed more on the audience in biblical interpretation. This is elucidated in this article by looking at a few methods employed by scholars in doing this in contemporary Africa.
- ItemHuman Impact on the Environment in the New Testament: A Rereading of Matthew 5:13-16 in the Nigerian Context(UMCATC journal of Theological Studies, 2015) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemIndigenous, Religion, Ethics and Moral Life of The Africans(Directorate of General Studies Programme (GSP),Redeemer's University, Ede, 2014) Dairo, Afolorunso
- ItemIntertestamental Concept of the Messiah and the Search for Political Saviour in Contemporary Nigeria(ORISUN: Journal of Religion and Human Values, 2004) Dairo, Afolorunso