Abstract

MANOMI, D.I.. Towards an African Biblical Virtue Ethics? Reflections on the Letter to Titus1 Through a Progressive-negotiated-ethics. Acta theol. [online]. 2019, vol.39, n.2, pp.114-129. ISSN 2309-9089.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.v39i2.7.

African conceptions of virtue, in comparison with the virtue-ethical perspectives of the letter to Titus, have foundational and narrative tensions, yet they are in tandem in some important respects. Consequently, appropriating a virtue ethic that is relevant to African contexts and simultaneously accountable to the virtue-ethical perspectives of Titus requires the application of a synthetic methodology. Hence, this article newly develops and describes such a methodology as "progressive-negotiated-ethics". In applying this methodology, the article negotiates, imagines and emerges a virtue-ethical horizon that is simultaneously African and biblical, described as "African biblical virtue ethics". Such a third virtue-ethical space, negotiated from the two distinct virtue concepts of African ethics and biblical ethics, takes both the intricacies of biblical ethics and the complexities of African ethics seriously.

Keywords : Virtue; Ethics; African; Biblical.

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