Publications

Ayodele AYENI, The Antithesis “Neither Jew nor Greek” in Galatians 3:28a. Its Context, Application, Meaning and Origin, Frankfurt: Lambert Akademikerverlag, 2012, 13,5 x 21,5 cm, 306 p.

— “‘You always have the Poor with you but you do not always have me’ (John 12:8): Charity as Worship of God,” African Journal of Contextual Theology 5, 2014, 53-77.

___ “Ni JUDÍO NI GRIEGO: Justificacíon de la fórmula en Gal. 3:28 y su Hermenéutica contextual,” Anamnesis 25/50, 2015, 41-64.

___ “Confirmation or Chrismation: How and Why do we receive the Holy Spirit? Making Origins and Context Important in Sacramentology,” African Journal of Contextual Theology 6, 2016, 121-159.

___ “Who [Christ], in the Form of God . . . to the Glory of God the Father” (Phil 2:6, 11): Its Context, Semantic, Evolution and Meaning; Exploring Stages in Paul’s Understanding of God,” Contribution to a book project of Pauline Task Force, Catholic Biblical Association of America Conference, Santa Clara University, CA, August 2, 2016.

___”‘Memoria'”: A New Hermeneutic Principle in Pontifical Theology? The Encyclical Lumen Fidei and its Tillardian Contextualization,” Science et Esprit 69/3, 2017, 401-426.

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Food Sunday: Becoming Food Providers Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15; Ephesians 4:17, 20-24; John 6:24-35 This Sunday is “Food Sunday”. In our first reading, God feeds starving Israelites with Manna in the desert. After their meal of Manna, calm returns to a people on a verge of rioting! In the gospel, Jesus feeds the hungry crowd, and they look for him to get extra free food. Essentially, we need to remember that the availability of food and the action of eating are opportunities to encounter God because he never abandons his children in their needy moments! The experience of Israel, in our first reading, confirms that aRead More →

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Called to Fidelity, NOT Success: Christ our Shepherd and Model Acts 13:42-52; Revelation 7:9, 14b-17; John 10:27-30 If the resurrection saga of Jesus has stirred so much controversy because the Jews wanted to discredit it, this Sunday’s readings have decided to shift gears and attention. Instead of dwelling on Jewish opposition to the resurrection story, the search light is turned on how those who preach the resurrection should do their job: we move from opposition to witnessing to the resurrection of Jesus Christ as individual Christians. The fundamental question is how does one respond to opposition to what one stands for? Better put, how doesRead More →