Teresa Okure is a Nigerian Catholic nun. She was the first African to become a member of the

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. She is a Professor in residence of the Department of Bible Theology, at the

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, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Okure teaches

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and Gender Hermeneutics, and has taught at the Institute since 1999. She earned her Ph.D at

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. In 2013, she was noted as a possible candidate for appointment as a female

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Works

* ''The Johannine Approach to Mission'' (1988) * ''To Cast Fire Upon the Earth'' (2000)

References

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