TITLE:
A Postcolonial Reading of the Triumphant Entry
AUTHORS:
Adegbite Deborah Doyinsola, Adegbite Olusola Deborah
KEYWORDS:
Postcolonial Criticism, Triumphant Entry, Evangelism, Theology, Christianity, Nigeria
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.6,
June
30,
2015
ABSTRACT:
This paper explores the Matthean version of
the Triumphant Entry from a Nigerian postcolonial perspective. The methodology used is the exegesis of the passage using a
Reader Response criticism to understand the contextual and typological
contemporary meanings of the passage. The result showed that the colonial harbinger of the gospel message introduced a
colonized gospel that robbed the people of the liberation they ought to
experience through the gospel.