J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu or Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu FGA is a Ghanaian scholar of African Pentecostalism.

Biography

Asamoah-Gyadu received a Certificate in Pastoral Ministry (1986) from Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, a BA in Religion and Sociology (1987) and a MPhil in Religion (1994) from the University of Ghana, and a PhD in Theology (2000) from the University of Birmingham. He is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church Ghana and, in 2015, was elected as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] He has held teaching posts at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon since 1994, and is currently Baëta-Grau Professor of African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology and, since 2018, President of the seminary.[2]

Asamoah-Gyadu is known for his writings related to African Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. He has also written a few articles related to digital media and digital religion.[3][4]

A festschrift has been prepared in his honor, entitled African Pentecostalism and World Christianity (2020).[5]

Works

  • Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena (2005). African Charismatics: Current Developments Within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-14089-9.
  • Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena (2013). Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations From an African Context. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-62032-898-9.
  • Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena (2015). Sighs and Signs of the Spirit: Ghanaian Perspectives on Pentecostalism and Renewal in Africa. Wipf & Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4982-3707-9.

References

  1. ↑ "Rev. Prof. Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu". Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  2. ↑ Opuni-Frimpong, Kwabena (16 November 2018). "Investiture of Very Rev Prof Johnson Kwabena Asamoah Gyadu as President of Trinity Theological Seminary". Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  3. ↑ Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena (April 2005). "Anointing Through the Screen: Neo-Pentecostalism and Televised Christianity in Ghana". Studies in World Christianity. 11 (1): 9–28. doi:10.3366/swc.2005.11.1.9.
  4. ↑ Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena (December 2007). "'"Get on the Internet!" Says the LORD': Religion, Cyberspace and Christianity in Contemporary Africa". Studies in World Christianity. 13 (3): 225–242. doi:10.3366/swc.2007.13.3.225.
  5. ↑ Wariboko, Nimi; Afolayan, Adeshina, eds. (15 September 2020). African Pentecostalism and World Christianity: Essays in Honor of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-7252-6637-7.

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