Ezekiel’s Spirit Motif in the Context of African Pentecostal Theology

Abstract

In Ezekiel’s Spirit Motif in the Context of African Pentecostal Theology,
Samuel Muindi responded to a lacuna in biblical scholarship a hermeneutic
of the African “spirit” worldview and the African Pentecostal pneumatology
in particular (1).
Muindi interprets Ezekiel’s spirit motif in the African Pentecostal theology
in Africa’s “en-spirited” worldview and relates Ezekiel’s spirituality
represented by the imageries and symbolism of spirit’s experience to the
African Pentecostal spirituality. He points to African peoples’ contextual
construct of divine presence in an African spirit worldview. Muindi
associates the African spirit worldview with the Pentecostal-Charismatic
movement pneumatology, the African Christianity considered a syncretistic
blend of Western Christianity and African traditional beliefs. However, he
contends, African Christianity is a contextual faith and not as syncretistic
as it appears.