How do Africans read the Bible?
This weekend I started Philip Jenkins’ fantastic (and very readable) The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South. He traces the issues that have divided the global Christian world in modern times: gender, sexual morality and homosexuality, and looking for reasons for why ‘the West’ and the ‘Global South’ seem to be at such odds. When it comes to reading the Bible, what is it about African approaches that seem so literalistic to westerners? Why is it that Africans think westerners don’t care about the Bible? Read more
