Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Ethnic Harmony in Ghana
Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Ethnic Harmony in Ghana
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母语圣经诠释学与加纳民族和谐的追求
作者：
F. M. Amevenku
加纳人民之间存在种族不和谐。其原因何在？加纳是不同民族、文化、人民和国家的融合体，形成一个实体。造成这一现象的主要原因是非洲的分裂，但也有其他因素。瓜分非洲的计划在很大程度上导致了非洲身份的侵蚀。 19 世纪和 20 世纪前往西非南部的欧洲基督教传教团利用这一现实来发挥其传教优势。不幸的是，结果似乎适得其反，因为宣教项目在很大程度上产生了一种未能确认非洲身份的基督教版本。忧心忡忡的非洲人现在肩负着解构帝国主义、欧洲宣教所构建的西非基督徒身份的使命，他们认识到圣经解释是这一非殖民议程的主要来源之一。以母语阅读《以弗所书》第 2 章如何帮助欧洲基督教去殖民化并促进加纳的民族和谐？本文运用母语圣经解释学，认为加纳对民族和谐的追求是一种非殖民化的解释学，具有促进加纳民族和谐的潜力。
Ethnic disharmony exists among the people of Ghana. What are the reasons for this? Ghana is an amalgamation of different ethnic groups, cultures, peoples and states to form one entity. The partition of Africa is mainly responsible for this, though there are other contributing factors. The project to partition Africa led, in large measure, to the erosion of the African identity. The 19th- and 20th-century European Christian mission to southern West Africa exploited this reality to their mission advantage. Unfortunately, the result seems to be counterproductive because the mission project, for the most part, produced a version of Christianity that failed to affirm the African identity. Concerned Africans, now on a mission to deconstruct the imperialist, European mission-constructed West African Christian identity, realise that biblical interpretation is one major source of this decolonial agenda. How does a mother-tongue reading of Ephesians 2 help decolonise Eυe Christianity and promote ethnic harmony in Ghana? Using mother-tongue biblical hermeneutics, this paper argues that the pursuit of ethnic harmony in Ghana is a decolonial hermeneutic with potential for fostering ethnic harmony in Ghana.