Contextualizing the Parable of the Prodigal Son within The African Cultural Setting

Abstract

The paper on contextualizing the Parable of the Prodigal Son within the African cultural setting in Luke 15:11-32, has these as the objectives; to critically examine why the cultural context was left out in the story, to also showcase the benefits derivable from contextualizing this parable and further to prove that every culture has something to offer its people even in this parable. The methodology adopted includes critical textual and hermeneutical analysis of the text among others. The result revealed that there are lots of good lessons to derive from both the Jewish and the African cultural impute in this story. Suppressing cultural impute may amount to denying the audience from benefiting from certain aspect of the teaching.