Completing the course will give the students the following learning outcome, sectioned into knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• has a robust overview of the background, development and current expressions of inculturation, liberation and reconstruction models of African biblical and theological hermeneutics

• has solid knowledge of the potential and critiques of postcolonial theory to offer interpretive perspectives to models of African biblical and theological hermeneutics

• has in-depth understanding of the interaction and tension between the models of African biblical and theological hermeneutics, as well as examples of tension within the individual models

Skills

The student

• can discuss how interpretive contexts are reflected in the major hermeneutical models, especially in post-colonial contexts

• can discuss and evaluate the interaction and tension between the major hermeneutical models

• can critically discuss the role of gender-related questions in the major hermeneutical models

General Competence

The student

• can identify relevant research questions in the field of African biblical and theological hermeneutics and carry out research with scholarly and ethical integrity

• can express and communicate key perspectives of African biblical and theological hermeneutics in scholarly and popular contexts

Emnebeskrivelse

African biblical and theological hermeneutics

PHD-TR 906