Alexander G. K. Salakpi

About

Rev. Fr. Dr. Alexander G. K. Salakpi is a member of the Joint Association of Ghanaian Diocesan Priests and the Catholic Bishops Conference of Ghana.

Education

Ph.D.  (Biblical Studies), Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. USA, 2004 - 2009

Summer Studies in Egypt: Religious and Archeological Studies, Egypt, 2007

Summer Studies in Israel: Biblical and Archeological Studies, Israel, 2006

Clinical Pastoral Education, Brigham and Women Hospital, Harvard Affiliated, Boston, MA USA 2004

Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL), Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA, USA 2002 – 2004

M.Th.  (Biblical Studies) Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 1999 – 2002

Post Graduate Certificate (Theology), St. Peter’s Regional Seminary, Cape Coast, Ghana, 1992 - 1996                                                                 

B.A. (Sociology and Theology) University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, 1992 - 1994 

Certificate (Philosophy), St. Paul’s Major Seminary, Accra, Ghana, 1990 – 1992

Research Interest

Biblical Studies

African Biblical Hermeneutics

Intellectual Traditions of the Bible

Contextual and Intercultural Exegesis.

Publications

Gatti, N., & Salakpi, A. (2022). The Word of God and the Covid-19: intercultural reading of   Job’s Questions. In C. J. Kaunda, A. Longkumer, K. R. Ross & E. Mombo (Eds.), Christianity and COVID-19. Pathways for Faith (pp. 46-56). London, New York: Routledge.

Salakpi, A. (2010). Social alienation as a consequence of human suffering in the book of Job.   A study of Job 19:13-22. New York, Bloomington: iUniverse.

Salakpi, A.G. K. Literalist and Fundamentalist Biblical Interpretation as Obstacle to Divine Liberation” Sacrum Testamentum. 2022 https://sacratestamentum.wixsite.com/sacrum-     testamentum/volume-1-1. Article No. 25 

Salakpi, A.G.K. (2022). Christianity and Greek Culture. In  K. Boamah, E. E. Novieto & I. Boaheng  (Eds.), Introduction to Christianity: An African Reader (pp. 83-110). Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.

Salakpi, A.G.K. (2019). Do we still need this – cultural prejudice? A contemporary study  of John 4:1-42. Journal of African Biblical Studies 6, 109-136. 

Salakpi, A.G.K. (2019). Deut 4:1-8 and the observance of the law. Ghana Journal of   Religion & Theology 9 (2), 25-47.

Salakpi, A.G.K. (2020). COVID-19 stigmatization: a biblical remedy. Ghana Journal of   Religion & Theology 10 (2), 45-61.

Salakpi, A.G.K. (2021). The essence of giving the holy eucharist to the terminally-ill. Journal of the Trinity Theological Seminary, 21 (1), 219-237.

Salakpi, A.G.K. (2021). The spirit of empowerment: A study of Acts 3:1-10. Legon Journal of  The Humanities 32 (1), 82-102.

Salakpi, A.G.K. (2022). Ancestral stool veneration revisited within the lens of 1 Cor 8:1- 13. UUJ 2, 107-126.