J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

{{short description|Ghanaian clergyman and scholar of African Pentecostalism}}

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J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu or Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu {{post-nominals|country=GHA|FGA}} is a Ghanaian scholar of African Pentecostalism and an academic administrator. Professor Asamoah-Gyadu is also a Minister of the Methodist Church Ghana. In 2024, he was elected the thirteenth Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana.{{Cite web |last=Hama |first=Jude |date=20 October 2024 |title=The Church is unstoppable |url=https://www.graphic.com.gh/lifestyle/life/the-church-is-unstoppable.html}} From 2018 to 2024, he served as the President of the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon.

Biography

Asamoah-Gyadu received a Certificate in Pastoral Ministry (1986) from the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, a BA in Religion and Sociology (1987) and a MPhil in Religion (1994) from the University of Ghana, and a PhD in Theology (2000) from the University of Birmingham. He is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church Ghana and, in 2015, was elected as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web |title=Rev. Prof. Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu |url=http://gaas-gh.org/fellowship/membership/rev-prof-johnson-kwabena-asamoah-gyadu/ |website=Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=2 October 2020}} He has held teaching posts at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon since 1994, and is currently Baëta-Grau Professor of African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology and President of the seminary from 2018 to 2024.{{cite web |last1=Opuni-Frimpong |first1=Kwabena |title=Investiture of Very Rev Prof Johnson Kwabena Asamoah Gyadu as President of Trinity Theological Seminary |url=https://kopunifrimpong.org/2018/11/16/investiture-of-very-rev-prof-johnson-kwabena-asamoah-gyadu-as-president-of-trinity-theological-seminary/ |website=Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong |access-date=2 October 2020 |date=16 November 2018}}

Asamoah-Gyadu is known for his writings related to African Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. He has also written a few articles related to digital media and digital religion.{{cite journal |last1=Asamoah-Gyadu |first1=J. Kwabena |title=Anointing Through the Screen: Neo-Pentecostalism and Televised Christianity in Ghana |journal=Studies in World Christianity |date=April 2005 |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=9–28 |doi=10.3366/swc.2005.11.1.9}}{{cite journal |last1=Asamoah-Gyadu |first1=J. Kwabena |title='"Get on the Internet!" Says the LORD': Religion, Cyberspace and Christianity in Contemporary Africa |journal=Studies in World Christianity |date=December 2007 |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=225–242 |doi=10.3366/swc.2007.13.3.225|doi-access=free }}

A festschrift has been prepared in his honor, entitled African Pentecostalism and World Christianity (2020).{{cite book |editor-last1=Wariboko |editor-first1=Nimi |editor-last2=Afolayan |editor-first2=Adeshina |title=African Pentecostalism and World Christianity: Essays in Honor of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu |date=15 September 2020 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-7252-6637-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gn-DwAAQBAJ |language=en}}

Works

{{cite book |last1=Asamoah-Gyadu |first1=J. Kwabena |title=African Charismatics: Current Developments Within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-14089-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjQvAAAAYAAJ |year=2005 |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Asamoah-Gyadu |first1=J. Kwabena |title=Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations From an African Context |date=2013 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-62032-898-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u8BNAwAAQBAJ |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Asamoah-Gyadu |first1=J. Kwabena |title=Sighs and Signs of the Spirit: Ghanaian Perspectives on Pentecostalism and Renewal in Africa |date=2015 |publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-4982-3707-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0NgCgAAQBAJ |language=en}}

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Biography

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