Clifton Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 5716408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clifton Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clifton |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Regent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Signifying Black Pentecostal Theology
This article frames Black Pentecostal theology as a Spirit-baptized, diasporic, and liberative theological tradition emerging from the lived realities of Black Pentecostal communities. Grounded in signification, this theology reclaims meaning-making from Eurocentric categories and centers Black experience, history, and spiritual encounter. Emphasizing embodiment, communal worship, pneumatological imagination, and eschatological hope, it resists r…
Tribute to Dr. David Douglas Daniels III
Power, Principalities, and the Spirit
Pan-Africanism and Pentecostalism in Africa
The author of this article argues for a blending of Pan-Africanism and African Pentecostalism so as to produce a new political theology. While lauding the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Pan-African Black scholars, thinkers, and theologians for their efforts and accomplishments, the author lays bare their Western enlightenment worldview which, he argues, crippled their ability to speak to and empower Africans at the grassroots of society. The s…
Ogbu Kalu and Africa’s Christianity
In this review article some of the key ideas presented in the scholarship of Ogbu Kalu on African Christianity generally, and African Pentecostalism specifically, are discussed. The review commends Professor Kalu for broadening the historiography of Pentecostalism beyond North America and Europe to global phenomena with multiple access points. It further praises Kalu for pioneering the role of cultural moorings upon the shape of African Christian…
Transformation After Lausanne
Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power
Towards a Functional Christology Among AICs in Ghana
This article explores the means by which Christ is encountered and appropriated in the everyday lives of African Indigenous Church adherents in Ghana. Drawing upon an extensive Christological questionnaire that surveyed 2500 people across the ten regions of Ghana, as well as making use of the ethnographic data gathered through focus groups discussions and interviews, it seeks to understand the way Christology functions in the lives of adherents o…
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Towards a Functional Christology Among AICs in Ghana
This article explores the means by which Christ is encountered and appropriated in the everyday lives of African Indigenous Church adherents in Ghana. Drawing upon an extensive Christological questionnaire that surveyed 2500 people across the ten regions of Ghana, as well as making use of the ethnographic data gathered through focus groups discussions and interviews, it seeks to understand the way Christology functions in the lives of adherents o…
Transformation After Lausanne
Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power
Ogbu Kalu and Africa’s Christianity
In this review article some of the key ideas presented in the scholarship of Ogbu Kalu on African Christianity generally, and African Pentecostalism specifically, are discussed. The review commends Professor Kalu for broadening the historiography of Pentecostalism beyond North America and Europe to global phenomena with multiple access points. It further praises Kalu for pioneering the role of cultural moorings upon the shape of African Christian…
Pan-Africanism and Pentecostalism in Africa
The author of this article argues for a blending of Pan-Africanism and African Pentecostalism so as to produce a new political theology. While lauding the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Pan-African Black scholars, thinkers, and theologians for their efforts and accomplishments, the author lays bare their Western enlightenment worldview which, he argues, crippled their ability to speak to and empower Africans at the grassroots of society. The s…
Power, Principalities, and the Spirit
Tribute to Dr. David Douglas Daniels III
Signifying Black Pentecostal Theology
This article frames Black Pentecostal theology as a Spirit-baptized, diasporic, and liberative theological tradition emerging from the lived realities of Black Pentecostal communities. Grounded in signification, this theology reclaims meaning-making from Eurocentric categories and centers Black experience, history, and spiritual encounter. Emphasizing embodiment, communal worship, pneumatological imagination, and eschatological hope, it resists r…
Christian Theology and Mission (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · Art (2 works)