Ogbu Kalu

Ogbu Uke Kalu (1942 - 2009) bụ onye ọkà mmụta okpukpe Naijiria. A maara ya dị ka onye isi na ọmụmụ nke Iso Ụzọ Kraịst Africa, ọkachasị na mmekọrịta ya na Pentikọstal Africa.

Akụkọ ndụ

A mụrụ ya na Isiugwu otu n'ime obodo iri abụọ na isii nke ezinụlọ Ohafia (nke bụzi akụkụ nke Abia State, Nigeria), Kalu bu ụzọ gụọ akwụkwọ na Hope Waddell Training Institute na Calabar tupu ọ kwaga Canada, mechaa BA na Mahadum Toronto (1967), MA na akụkọ ihe mere eme na Mahadum McMaster (1968), na PhD na akụkọ ihe ochie na Mahadam Toronto (1972). O mechara gụchaa MDiv na Princeton Theological Seminary (1974).

N'afọ 1974, Kalu nwetara ọrụ na Ngalaba Ọmụmụ Okpukpe na Mahadum Naịjirịa, na-arụ ọrụ nkuzi na nchịkwa dị iche iche n'ime ụlọ ọrụ mahadum ahụ ruo n'afọ 2001. ahụ, ọ malitere Henry Winters Luce Prọfesọ nke Iso Ụzọ Kraịst Ụwa na Ozi na McCormick Theological Seminary, ọ bụ ọrụ ọ rụrụ ruo mgbe ọ nwụrụ na mberede na 2009.

A maara ya nke ọma maka agụmakwụkwọ ya na Iso Ụzọ Kraịst nke Africa, ọkachasị magnum opus ya African Pentecostalism: An Introduction (Oxford 2008).

Nsọpụrụ

N'afọ 1997, a na-asọpụrụ Kalu na Doctor of Divinity na Presbyterian College na Mahadum McGill. N'afọ 2019, e guzobere Ogbu Kalu Center for Christianity and African Culture na Mahadum Steeti Abia .

N'afọ 2005, e bipụtara festschrift iji sọpụrụ ya, Njem akpọrọ Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Ogbu U. Kalu . [1]Okpukpe, Akụkọ Ihe Mere Eme, na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị na Naịjirịa: Essays in Honor of Ogbu U. Kalu.

Ọrụ

• Kalu (2008). African Pentecostalism: An Introduction (in en). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-534000-6. 
• (2008) in Kalu: Interpreting Contemporary Christianity: Global Processes and Local Identities (in en). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-6242-6. 
• (2007) in Kalu: African Christianity: An African Story (in en). Africa World Press. ISBN 978-1-59221-580-5. 
• Kalu (2003). The Embattled Gods: Christianization of Igboland, 1841-1991 (in en). Africa World Press. ISBN 978-1-59221-116-6.