Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-2 | Issue-08 | 643-652
Review Article
Solar Hermeneutics, an Imperative for African Traditional Religion and Solar Religion in General
Kiatezua Lubanzadio Luyaluka
Published : Aug. 23, 2017
Abstract
Hermeneutics, as a theory of interpretation, has a long tradition in Western thought. In Africa however this
science has always been seen within the context of the Western thought. The statement of a naturalized epistemology of
African indigenous knowledge, the demonstrated existence of a solar religion characterizing the civilizations of Egypt,
Sumer, as well as primitive Christianity and traditional Africa, all of this coupled to the demonstrated scientific nature of
the solar religion indicates the existence of an approach of interpretation of religious texts and discourses exclusively
appropriate to solar cultures. This new approach distinguishes the scientific content from the cultural one, and judges the
religious records by a comparative study of its scientific content with a systematic natural theology which provides an
unbiased scientific standard of the “Word of God”.