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Victor Ezigbo explores the theme of mediated divine action through a comparison of Barth’s interpretation of scriptural authority and Christopher Ejizu’s view of the nature and functions of ọfọ in the indigenous religion of the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria. In both cases, a human-made object can function as a means for people to encounter God, even as God remains free, never identified or confused with the object. Ezigbo attends carefully to the details of how objects mediate divine-human encounter in each case. Without minimizing the differences between Barth’s theology and the Igbo understanding of ọfọ, he concludes with attention to their shared conviction that God’s freedom to use fallible texts and objects to encounter humans should chasten every effort to restrict God or make the divine in our own image.
Victor Ezigbo通过比较Barth对圣经权威的解释和Christopher Ejizu对ọfọ在尼日利亚东南部伊博人土著宗教中的性质和功能的看法,探讨了调解神圣行为的主题。在这两种情况下,人造物体都可以作为人们与上帝相遇的手段,即使上帝是自由的,永远不会与物体识别或混淆。埃齐博在每个案例中都仔细关注物体如何调解神与人相遇的细节。他并没有淡化巴特的神学和伊博人对ọfọ的理解之间的差异,而是关注了他们共同的信念,即上帝可以自由地使用易出错的文本和物体来与人类相遇,这应该惩罚一切限制上帝或以我们自己的形象创造神圣的努力。