SPELLING THE FAITH OR COPING WITH BIBLICAL LITERACY? INTRODUCING 19TH CENTURY BASOTHO CHRISTIANS
Abstract
Can the Christian faith be spelt out as though it were a word? What does literacy or lack thereof have to do with belief and/or the Bible? What does “reading” the Bible really entail? What did baruti conceive of thuto in relation to their Basotho converts? How did nineteenth century Basotho literati cope with these questions? How does the New Testament witness relate to these issues? These questions lie in the background of the ensuing exploration. My approach is circumlocutory, and I have no delusions about the provisionality of my observations. I only trust that I do some justice to the newspaper articles that to my mind urged this paper.Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
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