Mbiti, John S.
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معلومات حول الهوية:
الاسم الرئيس (باللاتينية)
Mbiti, John S.
صِيَغ اسمية أخرى
Mbiti, John
Mbiti, John Samuel
تاريخ الميلاد
1931-11-30
تاريخ الوفاة
2019-10-05
بلدان ذات صلة
Kenya
Switzerland
مجال النشاط
Africa--Religion
Bible--Translating
Christianity and culture
Christianity
Kamba language
Theology
مهنة
Clergy
Priests
Religious educators
Theologians
Translators
لغات ذات صلة
eng
النوع الاجتماعي
male
بيانات بيوغرافية أو تاريخية
b. 1931
Rev., B.A., A.B., Th.B.
MARC
MARC
مصادر المعلومات
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1931; Rev., B.A., A.B., Th.B.)
- New York Times, John Mbiti, 87 dies; punctured myths about African religions, Oct. 24, 2019, viewed October 26, 2019(John Mbiti, a Christian theologian from Kenya, died Oct. 5 at a nursing home in Burgdorf, Switzerland, age 87; he disputed characterizations of African religions as anti-Christian at best and practiced by savages at worst, saying they were as deeply rooted and as legitimate as Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism; criticized by Okot p'Bitek and others for casting his arguments in intellectual terms established by the West; John Samuel Mbiti, born Nov. 30, 1931, in Mulango, Kenya; studied at University College of Makerere in Kampala, Uganda, in 1953; received bachelor's degree in theology from Barrington College, Rhode Island; taught briefly in Kenya and Britain; earned Ph.D. in theology at Cambridge University, where he met his future wife, Verena Siegenthaler; ordained as an Anglican priest by the Church of England; served as a parish priest in England before returning to Makerere in 1964 as a teacher of traditional African religions; his lack of knowledge about the subject led him to field work, resulting in publication of African Religions and Philosophy; taught at Makerere until 1974, when he was hired as director of the World Council of Churches Bossey Ecumenical Institute, Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland; became known for organizing conferences on intercultural theology; left the council in the early 1980s and was parish minister in Burgdorf for 15 years; also taught theology at the University of Bern 1983-2003; in 2014 he completed translation of the New Testament from the original Greek into his local language, Kamba)
- His English-Kamba vocabulary, 1959.
- BL AL recd. 27th Oct. 1988(John Samuel Mbiti, born 30th Nov. 1931)