Very Rev. Dr. James K. Walton
Senior Research Fellow
Quality Assurance Officer
Phone: +233-342091490/1
Email: jkwalton@aci.edu.gh
Education / Associations
BSc. (Legon), M. Div (Asbury Theological Seminary), P.Dip Education (Cape Coast), PhD Theology (Akropong)
Research Interests
Courses Taught
MA
Christian History as Mission History
Biblical Texts on Creation and Salvation History in African Perspective
Issues for Christians in Science: Biblical, Historical and Cultural Perspectives
MTh/PhD
Aspects of World Christian History
Issues in Gospel and Culture – Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives
Studies in Early African Christianity of the First Six Centuries
Aspects of the Christian History of Africa
The History of Christianity in Africa
Current Engagements
Quality Assurance Officer
Associate, Centre for Early African Christianity
Select Publications
“The Effects of Cocoa on the Establishment of Christianity, Conversion and Discipleship in Selected Areas of Southern Ghana” in Robert Addo-Fening & Allison M Howell, The ‘Golden Pod’: Its Religious, Socio-Economic and Political Impact on the Gold Coast and Ghana, (Akropong-Akuapem: Regnum Africa, 2018), pp. 98-118
“Spirituality and the Primal Apprehension of the Christian Faith: A Critical Examination of Afua Kuma’s ‘Jesus of the Deep Forest’”, Trinity Journal of Church and Theology, Vol. 19, No. 3, (March 2018), pp. 102-125
“Sin in Ghanaian Primal Religion and Contemporary Christianity” Ogbomoso Journal of Theology, Vol 22, No. 2, (September 2017), pp. 1-16.
Ernest Nyarko & JKG Walton, “Akan Sexuality and the Bible”, West African Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 6, (2017), pp. 183-202.
Early Ghana Methodism (Accra: Artegraphics, 2015)
“Church and Mission: The Ministry of Catechists, 1900-1950, Journal of African Christian Thought, Vol. 15, No. 1 (June 2012), pp. 43-50.