The 'Pauline' Spirit World in Eph 3:10 in the Context of Igbo World View

The Eph «Pauline» spirit world articulations are founded in the attempts at Weltbewältigung. Related mentality in Igbo world view accounts for their spirit world apprehensions. Psycho-hermeneutical approach reveals the importance of cognitive reconstruction of the basic Weltanschauung through true appreciations of Eph Christological paraenetics.

Eph 3:10 (Principalities and Authorities in the Heavenly Places) articulates the related cluster of terms that express the «Pauline» spirit world in Ephesians'. Through a psychological-hermeneutical study, this book contributes to provide a theologically-founded response to the immense challenges the spirit world apprehensions among the Igbo (Africans), pose to true discipleship in these settings. Identifying the strongly influential role played here by the Igbo traditional religion/world view(s) and the foundation of these biblical terms in the attempts at Weltbewältigung, the book highlights how proper appreciation of the Christological paraenetics of Eph enhances critical consciousness and cognitive reconstruction towards mature faith and societal betterment.

Autorentext

John Chijioke Madubuko was ordained a priest for the Catholic Diocese of Enugu after studying Philosophy and Theology. He has a Licentiate in Pastoral Psychology from the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule St. Georgen in Frankfurt am Main.

Inhalt
Contents: «Pauline» spirit world in historical and theological perspectives Analysis of Eph, its cosmological backgrounds and Igbo cosmology and world view Textual and exegetical appraisals Psychological hermeneutics - towards applications: Christology as psychological factor Reading Eph 3:10 in Igbo context: contestations and proposals.