An Exploration of the Prophet and Prophecy in Contemporary Ghanaian Christianity in Light of Old Testament Theology
Emmanuel Twumasi-Ankrah 
& Bismark Kwaku Adorkovi
Issue: Vol.6 No.1 June Article 1 pp. 1 – 15
DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/pecanep.2025611 | Published online 20th June 2025.
© 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Prophets and prophecy are not strange phenomena in most religions and communities around the world. Ghana’s experience with the prophetic phenomena has been ambivalent and paradoxical. There have been times and places where the prophetic movement and ministry have been widely embraced. Whereas in some others, the phenomena have been criticized and called into question by many people in Ghana. The abuses perpetrated by some so-called prophets, and executions of prophetic excesses have been the main factors leading to such public outcries. It was in this vein that an attempt was made to examine the prophetic phenomena in Ghanaian Christianity, using the Old Testament as a framework. As a qualitative study, the Old Testament text and other scholarly works that reflect on the phenomena of prophets and prophecy in Ancient Israel and Ghana were reviewed. In addition, a researcher’s observation on the ministrations of the so-called prophets in Ghana was done in order to gather relevant information that could facilitate the intended Old Testament-Ghanaian prophetic parallels. The paper contends that though the phenomena in the Old Testament context are somewhat nuanced, which makes theologizing quite challenging, the authors of the Old Testament corpus have provided adequate information on the prophetic phenomena that can evolve a framework for Ghanaian prophets and prophetic ministrations. This paper is relevant for scholarships in relation to Old Testament studies, prophetism, neo-prophetic, Christianity in Ghana, contextual theology, and Christian religious excesses.
Keywords: Prophet, Prophecy, Prophetism, Old Testament, Ghanaian Christianity
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Dr. Emmanuel Twumasi-Ankrah, holds a PhD in Religious Studies (Biblical Studies –Old Testament) from the Department of Religion and Human Development at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He is a Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies (Old Testament), in the Department of Theology at the Christian Service University, Kumasi, Ghana. His research area covers Biblical studies, Old Testament Exegesis, Old Testament and African Life and Thought, Bible and Ecology, Bible Translation, Mother-tongue Biblical Hermeneutics etc. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Biblical Scholarship, Africa (IBSA) and a peer reviewer in a number of refereed peer reviewed international journals.
Rev. Bismark Kwaku Adorkovi holds a Master of Arts in Christian Ministry and Management from the Department of Theology at the Christian Service University. He is a minister of the Gospel with The Apostolic Church.
Twumasi-Ankrah, Emmanuel, and Bismark Kwaku Adorkovi. “An Exploration of the Prophet and Prophecy in Contemporary Ghanaian Christianity in Light of Old Testament Theology.” Pentecostalism, Charismaticism and Neo-Prophetic Movements Journal 6, no.1 (2025): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.38159/pecanep.2025611
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