Very Rev. Dr. Ernest Nyarko
Senior Research Fellow / Acting Director CEGACE
Phone: +233-342091490/1
Email: enyarko@aci.edu.gh
Education / Associations
BA (ANU, Koforidua), MTh (Akropong), PhD (Akropong)
Research Interests
New Testament, especially St. Paul’s writings in African Perspective.
Human Sexuality and Christian Ethics
Mother tongue Biblical Hermeneutics .
Gospel and culture engagement.
Courses Taught
MA
New Testament Survey: Early Christian History, Ideas and Literature.
Literature, Message and Ideas of the Bible.
Biblical Texts (Pauline Pneumatology).
Mission in the Bible (Jonah and Galatians).
Current Engagements
Ag. Director, Oseadeeyo Nana Addo Dankwa III Centre for Gospel and Culture Engagement (CEGACE)
Select Publications
‘Gospel and Culture in the Context of Christian Mission in Africa: The Basel Mission’s Encounter with the Dipo Custom among the Krobo in Eastern Ghana’, in Journal of Applied Thought (A Multidisciplinary Approach), Vol. 1, No. 1, May 2013, pp. 109-144.
‘Vernacular/Mother-Tongue Bible in African Christianity: An Examination of Kwame Bediako’s Thoughts’, in Journal of Applied Thought (A Multidisciplinary Approach), Vol. 2, No. 3, November 2013, pp. 75-102.
‘A Critical Assessment of Western Perception of Africans’ Religiosity: 19th and Early 20th Centuries,’ Religious and Theological Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 2015, pp. 44-74.
Ernest Nyarko & JKG Walton, ‘Akan Sexuality and the Bible’, in West African Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 6, 2017, pp. 183-202.