An Exploration into Soteriology in Ifa
| العنوان: | An Exploration into Soteriology in Ifa |
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| المؤلفون: | Charles Obafemi Jegede |
| المصدر: | Black Theology. 11:201-218 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2013. |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | media_common.quotation_subject, Yoruba, Religious studies, Doctrine, language.human_language, Indigenous, Epistemology, Christian theology, Soteriology, language, Sociology, Oral tradition, Theology, Content (Freudian dream analysis), media_common, African theology |
| الوصف: | This article explores the concept of soteriology—the doctrine of salvation. Soteriology is central to Christian theology and is also fundamental to African indigenous religions and cultures. This article is an attempt to give theoretical and practical supports to the existence of soteriological concepts in Afri-can indigenous religion as evidenced in Ifa; an oral tradition of the Yoruba. It clarifies and reinforces the general assumptions that Ifa has certain theological ideas and that it is a principal source of African theology. The study claims that Ifa, which has been defined by UNESCO as an “oral and intangible heritage,” if studied thoroughly, reveals the underlying African theologies of salvation. The theological content of African indigenous religion has been the concern of scholars in contextual or inculturation theology. This study opines that extensive study of Ifa is essential to the understanding of the Yoruba concept of salvation. The concept of salvation for any people is fundamenta... |
| تدمد: | 1743-1670 1476-9948 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::975d1b0ae612cb4745036b432fb8b655 https://doi.org/10.1179/1476994813z.0000000003 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........975d1b0ae612cb4745036b432fb8b655 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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