John Samuel Pobee (9 July 1937 – 22 January 2020) was a
Ghanaian Christian theologian and former
Vicar General of the
Anglican Diocese of Accra,
Ghana.
Biography
Pobee studied at
Adisadel College (1950–1956), the
University of Ghana (1957–1961), and
Selwyn College, Cambridge (1961–1966). He completed his priestly training at
Westcott House, Cambridge (1963–1964).
He was
Emeritus Professor at the
University of Ghana, where he previously taught and served as Head of Department for the Study of Religions and Dean of the Faculty of Arts.
Pobee was known for his work in the
New Testament,
African Christian theology, and
missiology. He wrote his
memoirs
A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiog ...
, ''Sense of Grace and Mission'', and a
festschrift was prepared in his honor, entitled ''Trajectories of Religion in Africa''.
On 26 July 1994, Pobee married
Martha Ama Akyaa Nkrumah, a career diplomat of the Ghana Foreign Service.
Pobee died in Ghana in January 2020 at the age of 82.
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References
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1937 births
2020 deaths
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Ghanaian Anglicans
Ghanaian theologians
World Christianity scholars