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The Rev. Prof. Kabiro Wa Gatumu
Programme Head MTh and chairman CETCOBS, School of Theology

Academic Qualifications

PhD (Durham); MTH (Kwa Zulu Natal); BD (St. Paul's); LTH (St. Paul's); Dip. Th (St. Paul's)

Bio

Prof. Albert Kabiro Gatumu, PhD from the University of Durham, UK, is an associate professor of New Testament, biblical Greek, and biblical hermeneutics in the faculty of theology at St. Paul’s University in Kenya. Wa Gatumu is the author of The Pauline Concept of Supernatural Powers: A Reading from the African Worldview (Paternoster, 2008) and several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Publications

  1. The Bible in the Life of the African Church: Historical Realities, Hermeneutical Discourse and Future Prospects. (Carlisle, Cumbria: Langham Publishing, 2024 –forthcoming)
  2. On This Rock I Will Build My Church: Reshaping African Evangelical Ecclesiology through a Philological Rereading of Matthew 16: 16-19. African Theological Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2024 – forthcoming)
  3. Can Contextual and Liberation Hermeneutics be Evangelical: Restating the Contextual Nature of Evangelical Hermeneutics and the Evangelical nature of Contextual Hermeneutics. In Esther E. Acolatse, Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai and Kevaughn Mattis (eds.) Holistic Theology for Modern Black/African Churches. (Publisher not identified, but forthcoming, 2024)
  4. Paul and Church Leadership: Towards an African Transformational Interpretation of Titus1:1-9 for the Rwandese Church. Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 1 2023: 2958-4558. (Online, DOI: https://doi.org/10.58721/eajhss.v2i1.185 - Co-authored with Emmanuel Mugiraneza)
  5. Biblical Equity in Africa: Operationalizing and Mainstreaming Selected Pauline Texts on Mutual Gender Relations in the African Church. African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research (AMJR), Vol. 7, No. 2 (2022), pp. 22-45
  6. The Essentiality and Authority of the Canonical Scripture for an Actual Christian Life in the World. African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research (AMJR), Vol. 7, No. 2, (2022), 101-123 - Co-authored with Paul A. Okeno)
  7. Paul and Women’s Veiling in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16: Assessing the Interpretation and Translation of evxousi,an e;cein evpi. th/j kefalh/j dia. tou.j avgge,louj (1 Cor 11: 10) in the Light of its Socio-Cultural Context. African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research (AMJR). Vol. 5 No. 1, (2020)
  8. Response to Franciscan Community at Prayer by Christopher John Masters. In Muthuraj Swamy and Stephen Spenser (eds.) Listening Together: Global Anglican Perspectives on the Renewal of Prayer and the Religious Life. (London: The Anglican Communion Office, 2020), pp. 71-78
  9. Ephesians 5: 21-33 and Gender Equity: Towards a Mutual, Egalitarian and Gender-Balanced Church Leadership. African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research (AMJR), Vol. 4 No. 2, (2019), pp. 24-52
  10. The Parable of the Good Samaritan and Negative Ethnicity: A Reading towards Good Neighbourliness among Kenyan Ethnic Communities. African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research (AMJR), Vol. 4. No 1, (2019), pp. 184-211
  11. Gospel and Empire: A Critique of Pax Romana and Democratic Peace in the Light of John 16:32-33. Sapientia Logos: A journal of Biblical Research and Interpretation in Africa, Vol. 9, No. 1, (2018).
  12. Structures of Human Existence, Human Agency, Ideology and Institution: A Socio-Theological Study from Paul’s Perception of ‘Supernatural Powers’. Sapientia Logos:  A Journal of Biblical Research and Interpretation in Africa 8.1 (2016), pp. 1–47
  13. New Testament Evidence of Biblical Equity Revealed in Creation and Redemption in Jewel Hyun and Diphus Chemorion (eds.). Biblical Equity in Leadership: A Theology and Practice in the African Context (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2016), pp. 42–55
  14. The Interface between Gospel and Culture in the New Testament Era and Its Significance for African Christianity”. Gillian Mary Bediako, Benhardt Y. Quarshie and J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu (eds.) Seeing New Facets of the Diamond– Christianity as a Universal Faith: Essays in Honour of Kwame Bediako, (Akropong–Akuapem, Ghana: Regnum Africa, 2014)
  15. Authentic Biblical Christian Community: Paul’s Perspective on Ethnicity and Gender Relations Vis-à-vis the African Church. Sapientia Logos: A Journal of Biblical Research and Interpretation in Africa, Vol. 5 (2) May 2013, pp. 32–76
  16. The Epistle to the Romans: An Instruction Manual against Negative Ethnicity and a Tool for Ethnic Reconciliation. In D. C. Chemorion, Esther Mombo and C. B. Peter Contested Space: Ethnicity and Religion in Kenya (Limuru: Zapf Chancery, 2013), pp. 77–96
  17. Pamoja Reading – In Community and in Context: Reflections from East Africa. Clair Amos (ed.) The Bible in the Life of the Church (London: Canterbury Press, 2013) pp. 22–31
  18. Deliverance and Exorcism in Theological Perspective 2: Possession and Exorcism as New Testament Evidence for a Theology of Christ’s Supremacy. William K. Kay and Robin Parry (eds.), Deliverance and Exorcism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2010 and Sydney: Koorong), pp. 222-242.
  19. Appropriating the Epistle to the Hebrews Using Primal Resources: A Reading from an African Worldview. Journal of African Christian Thought, Vol.12, No 2, pp. 29-36.
  20. Challenges Facing Theological Education and Training in Africa, in Theologia Viatorum: Journal of Theology and Religion in Africa, Vol. 33, No 3, (2009), pp. 261-295
  21. Primal Resources for Appropriating the Bible: A Paradigm Shift for Biblical Hermeneutics? in Journal of African Christian Thought, Vol.12, No 1, (2009), pp. 15-21.
  22. The Economic Arrangements of the New Testament Era in Relation to Poverty Reduction, Then and Now, in Ogbomoso Journal of Theology (OJOT), in Journal of African Christian Thought Vol. 12, No. 1 (June 2009), pp. 15–21ol XIV (2), 2009, pp. 61–86.
  23. The Pauline Concept of “Supernatural Powers: A Reading from the African Worldview (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2008).
  24. The Bible And HIV/AIDS: A Christian Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Using the Bible” in African Theological Journal Vol. 31, No. 1, (2008), pp. 1-15.
  25. “Foreword” In Joseph K. Koech, The Spirit as Liberator: A Study of Luke 4: 14-30 in the African Context. (Eldoret: Zapf Chancery, 2008), pp. v-vi



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