Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application.
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2008
Authors
Kiambi, Julius Kithinji.
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Abstract
For those who have the courage to doubt, it can be said that the Bible which is highly regarded in Africa is not only an innocent book but also a guilty one because of the many social, political and religious evils that have bedevilled Africa from time to time and which it has condoned and has been used to sanction. Using postcolonial biblical criticism, and as a way of demonstrating that the entire Bible is another text of the empire, this thesis argues that imperial ideology promoted in Luke's socio-economic parables has contributed to another social evil i.e. the gap between the rich and the poor in Kenya.
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Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.
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Bible. NT. Luke--Criticism, redaction., Bible. NT. Luke--Socio-rhetorical criticism., Bible. NT. Luke--Parables., Bible--Postcolonial criticism., Bible--Africa., Bible--Hermeneutics., Christianity--Kenya., Postcolonialism--Kenya., Marxist criticism., Theses--Theology.