J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu or Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu FGA is a Ghanaian scholar of African Pentecostalism.

Biography

Asamoah-Gyadu received a Certificate in Pastoral Ministry (1986) from Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, a BA in Religion and Sociology (1987) and a MPhil in Religion (1994) from the University of Ghana, and a PhD in Theology (2000) from the University of Birmingham. He is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church Ghana and, in 2015, was elected as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1] He has held teaching posts at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon since 1994, and is currently Baëta-Grau Professor of African Christianity and Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology and, since 2018, President of the seminary.^[2]

Asamoah-Gyadu is known for his writings related to African Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. He has also written a few articles related to digital media and digital religion.^[3][4]

A festschrift has been prepared in his honor, entitled African Pentecostalism and World Christianity (2020).^[5]

Works

• Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena (2005). African Charismatics: Current Developments Within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-14089-9.
• Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena (2013). Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations From an African Context. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-62032-898-9.
• Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena (2015). Sighs and Signs of the Spirit: Ghanaian Perspectives on Pentecostalism and Renewal in Africa. Wipf & Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4982-3707-9.