| LC control no. | n 50010247 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PL8351.9.M3 |
| Personal name heading | Mbiti, John S. |
| Variant(s) | Mbiti, John Mbiti, John Samuel |
| Associated country | Kenya Switzerland |
| Associated place | Great Britain United States |
| Located | Nairobi (Kenya) |
| Birth date | 1931-11-30 |
| Death date | 2019-10-05 |
| Place of death | Burgdorf (Switzerland) |
| Field of activity | Christianity Christianity and culture Africa--Religion Theology Bible--Translating Kamba language |
| Affiliation | Universität Bern Ecumenical Institute Bossey University of Cambridge Makerere University College Barrington College |
| Profession or occupation | Theologians Religious educators Clergy Priests Translators |
| Found in | His English-Kamba vocabulary, 1959. BL AL recd. 27th Oct. 1988 (John Samuel Mbiti, born 30th Nov. 1931) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1931; Rev., B.A., A.B., Th.B.) New York Times, John Mbiti, 87 dies; punctured myths about African religions, Oct. 24, 2019, viewed October 26, 2019 (John Mbiti, a Christian theologian from Kenya, died Oct. 5 at a nursing home in Burgdorf, Switzerland, age 87; he disputed characterizations of African religions as anti-Christian at best and practiced by savages at worst, saying they were as deeply rooted and as legitimate as Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism; criticized by Okot p'Bitek and others for casting his arguments in intellectual terms established by the West; John Samuel Mbiti, born Nov. 30, 1931, in Mulango, Kenya; studied at University College of Makerere in Kampala, Uganda, in 1953; received bachelor's degree in theology from Barrington College, Rhode Island; taught briefly in Kenya and Britain; earned Ph.D. in theology at Cambridge University, where he met his future wife, Verena Siegenthaler; ordained as an Anglican priest by the Church of England; served as a parish priest in England before returning to Makerere in 1964 as a teacher of traditional African religions; his lack of knowledge about the subject led him to field work, resulting in publication of African Religions and Philosophy; taught at Makerere until 1974, when he was hired as director of the World Council of Churches Bossey Ecumenical Institute, Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland; became known for organizing conferences on intercultural theology; left the council in the early 1980s and was parish minister in Burgdorf for 15 years; also taught theology at the University of Bern 1983-2003; in 2014 he completed translation of the New Testament from the original Greek into his local language, Kamba) |
| Associated language | eng kam |
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