The Akan Doctrine of God: A Fragment of Gold Coast Ethics and Religion

ISBN-13: 9780714617497 / Angielski / Twarda / 1968 / 248 str.

J. B. Danquah

Opis

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

The Quest of the Doctrine; chapter I In Search of the Akan God; chapter II Critique of the Doctrine; chapter III The Positive Doctrine; The Akan Meaning of God; chapter IV Onyame, the Akan Deity; chapter V Onyamkopon Kwaame, or the God of Saturday; chapter VI Odomankoma, or the Infinitely Manifold God; Ethical Canons of the Doctrine; chapter VII Conservation of Virtue; chapter VIII The Elimination of Evil; Chapter IX Moral Progress; chapter X Human Progress; The Eight Akan Postulates; chapter XI The Truth of the Postulates; chapter XII The Ethnic Postulates; chapter XIII The Nana (Or Exemplar); Universal Utiltity of the Postulates; Chapter XIV O-Te Or Understanding (Onyame); chapter XV Sunsum Or Experience (Onyankopon); chapter XVI Okara or Insight (Odomankoma); chapter XVII Honhom or the Spirit of Being; post This postscript was originally the “Introduction” to the larger work, “Gold Coast Ethics and Religion,” Parts I and II of which have now perished, and are beyond recovery. It is justly called a postscript because, like all genuine “Introductions,” it was written after the text of the work had been completed;

O autorze

J.B. Danquah