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MANOMI, D.I.. Towards an African Biblical Virtue Ethics? Reflections on the Letter to Titus1 Through a Progressive-negotiated-ethics. Acta theol. [online]. 2019, vol.39, n.2, pp.114-129. ISSN 2309-9089.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.v39i2.7.

African conceptions of virtue, in comparison with the virtue-ethical perspectives of the letter to Titus, have foundational and narrative tensions, yet they are in tandem in some important respects. Consequently, appropriating a virtue ethic that is relevant to African contexts and simultaneously accountable to the virtue-ethical perspectives of Titus requires the application of a synthetic methodology. Hence, this article newly develops and describes such a methodology as "progressive-negotiated-ethics". In applying this methodology, the article negotiates, imagines and emerges a virtue-ethical horizon that is simultaneously African and biblical, described as "African biblical virtue ethics". Such a third virtue-ethical space, negotiated from the two distinct virtue concepts of African ethics and biblical ethics, takes both the intricacies of biblical ethics and the complexities of African ethics seriously.

Palabras clave : Virtue; Ethics; African; Biblical.

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