African Reading of Psalm 24:3-6: The Implications for the Enforcement of Morality among Christians in Africa.

Gyanvi-Blay, Joseph; Twumasi-Ankrah, Emmanuel

dc.contributor.author	Gyanvi-Blay, Joseph
dc.contributor.author	Twumasi-Ankrah, Emmanuel
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-29T21:43:39Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-29T21:43:39Z
dc.date.issued	2021-03-08
dc.identifier.issn	2676-2838
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30432
dc.description	STAFF/FACULTY PUBLICATIONS	en_US
dc.description.abstract	ABSTRACT This paper deals with the African reading of Psalm 24:3-6: The implications for the enforcement of morality among Christians in Africa. The book of Psalms is subdivided into five books comparable to the Pentateuch. Psalm 24 falls into the first book which is used as a liturgy of entrance into the Israelite temple. In Psalm 24:3-6 a worshipper asks for entry requirements to be met which are clean hands and pure hearts, not lifting up the soul to what is false, and not swearing deceitfully. The methodology used is the African perspective of readers’ response. Pastors and Christian leaders must lead the people with integrity befitting the sacredness of the hill of the Lord. Christians are the temple of God and are expected to observe ritual purity everywhere every time in order to receive blessings from God, (Onyame). Keywords: Morality, Shrine, clean hands, pure hearts, ritual purity.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	CHRISTIAN SERVICE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Noyam Publishers	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 3;Issue 1
dc.subject	Morality, Shrine, clean hands, pure hearts, ritual purity	en_US
dc.title	African Reading of Psalm 24:3-6: The Implications for the Enforcement of Morality among Christians in Africa.	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology (MOTBIT)	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US