Prof. Jonathan Edward Tetteh Kuwornu-Adjaottor
Secretary General – West Africa
Jonathan Edward Tetteh Kuwornu-Adjaottor (PhD) is Associate Professor of New Testament and Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics in the Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He was a veteran Head, Department of Religious Studies, KNUST. His research focus is New Testament, Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Bible Translation Hermeneutics. In 2014, he received the Royal Bank-CASS Best Researcher Award in the College of Art and Social Sciences (CASS), KNUST and the William Shakespeare Research Award in Religious Studies in 2015 by the International Agency for Standards and Ratings, India. Kuwornu-Adjaottor received the World Championship Award in Social Sciences 2018, and an Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt) Award in 2020 for his contribution in Biblical Hermeneutics by the same institution.
He has published over 60 journal articles, and a few book chapters. He has two books to his credit – Introduction to the New Testament for Students and Pastors, Accra: Noyam Publishers, 2020. Theology of the New Testament for Students and Pastors, Accra, Noyam Publishers. His recent journal publications include: (1) Translations and Interpretations of baptizontes (Mt 28:19-20) in Some Ghanaian Mother Tongue Translations of the Bible. HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 77(1) 2021:1-5. a6859. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v77i1.6859. (2) A Critical Translation of Matthew 6:12 in the Dangme Bible. Journal for the Study of the New Testament in Southern Africa 54(1) 2020 :67-86. (3) Evaluation of Translation and Interpretation of the Dangme Bible. Journal of Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology 2(5) 2020 :109-115. DOI:http:doi.org/10.38159/motbit.2020122. (4) A Critical Study of the Translation of Mark 1:12 in the Dangme Translation of the Bible. Oguaa Journal of Religion and Human Values 5(2) 2019 :97-109.
Kuwornu-Adjaottor is an Editor of NOESIS African Journal of Contemporary Trends in Religion and Society (NACTORS). He was the editor of the Humanities section of the Journal of Science and Technology (JUST); an Editorial Board Member of Eleutheria: African Journal of New Testament Studies and Consulting Editor of Sacrum Testamentum. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Centre for Cultural and African Studies (CeCASt), KNUST; and a Research Associate of the Department of New Testament and Related Literature, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Kuwornu-Adjaottor is a member of the Ghana Association of Biblical Exegetes (GABES), New Testament Society of Southern Africa (NTSSA), and a Fellow of the Directorate of Social Sciences (DSS). He is an Ordained Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) and currently serves as an Associate Minister of the Christ Congregation of the PCG, KNUST-Kumasi, Ghana.