Health as ᴆagbε in the Ghana-Eυe Context: Lessons from the New Testament
Issue: Vol.5 No.10 Special Issue Article 5 pp. 52-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20245105 | Published online 19th September, 2024
© 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
How does the Church in Ghana address the growing concerns of health care delivery especially among the Ghana-Eυe from the perspective of Christianity? This is the question that this study sought to answer. Using literature research, this paper argued that holistic Christian health care is nothing short of ᶑagbε in the Eυe context. ᶑagbε is holistic well-being. Holistic well-being can hardly be separated from the salvation that Jesus offers. At his incarnation, Jesus brought the gospel of the kingdom of God/kingdom of heaven as holistic well-being for human benefit. While preaching his holistic gospel, Jesus also healed and taught people. His spectacular healing ministry and other deeds did not prove his divine sonship or messiahship but attested to the fact that in his life and ministry, the kingdom of God/heaven had come in power and glory. In Jesus then, one finds the full realisation of God’s ᶑagbε to heal the human body, soul and spirit. The study contributes to scholarship in helping to indigenize the meaning of salvation in the Eυe context. This wades into the debate on inculturation theology in Africa.
Keywords: ᶑagbε, health, Ghana
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Frederick Mawusi Amevenku is currently the President of the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana. He is an Associate Professor with research interest in New Testament Studies and African Biblical Hermeneutics. He also serves as a Research Fellow for the Department of Old and New Testaments, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
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