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    Lessons from Scripture for Maasai Christianity, Lessons from Maasai Culture for the Global Church
    (Priscilla Papers, 2019) Barron, Joshua Robert
    Lessons from Scripture for Maasai Christianity, Lessons from Maasai Culture for the Global Church
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    Mutual submission, mutual respect: Reciprocal enkanyit in Ephesians 5 in the Maasai context
    (Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2021) Barron, Joshua Robert
    In Ephesians 5:21, Paul enjoins all Christians to live in mutual submission to each other out of reverence for Christ. In the verses that follow, Paul describes what this mutual submission should look like in practice. Some interpreters neglect the intimate connection which Eph 5:22-6:9 shares with the preceding verses in chapter 5. Indeed, the mutual submission of verse 21 is not only the conclusion of the 5:1-21 but is the foundation and title of 5:21-6:9. Failure to recognize this has led some to mock the very idea of mutual submission between husbands and wives. In the real world, this too often serves to justify unjust oppress ion and silencing of women within the Church. This article attempts to correct these errors. It also examines these issues in the context of Maasai culture and the traditional Maasai value of enkanyit (honour, mutual respect). A more careful exegesis of Ephesians 5 demonstrates that mutual submission provides the way for relational harmony between husbands and wives.
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    My God is enkAi: A Reflection of Vernacular African Theology
    (Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion, 2021) Barron, Joshua Robert
    n the thirty-two years since Lamin Sanneh published Translating the Message (Orbis Books, 1989), there has been a growing awareness of the importance of vernacular languages in Christian life and practice. But it is often still assumed that Christian theologizing is not legitimate unless it is in a European language. In much of Africa, theological education only takes place in the languages of the colonizers- English, French, and Portuguese. This can result in African churches that are ill-equipped to speak relevantly to African situations, as leaders are trained to read, teach, worship, and pray in a foreign language, neglecting their own. Authentic African Christianity requires theologizing in local African languages and invoking God in the names of God in those languages. Though (ironically?) written in English, this paper examines what elements of a vernacular theology might sound like for the Maasai and Samburu peoples of East Africa, exploring the Maa and Sampur names for God and discovering insights for World Christianity as well.