Ever since the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation in 1991, the Bible has become foundational in the public of life, and often cited in public debates. This article employs symbolic power as an analytical tool to examine Sumaili’s state theology of the Bible which politicized and reduced the Bible in the public into a state apparatus for defining, shaping, and determining the meaning and content for governing Zambia. It proposes a Pentecostal public theology of the people’s Bible as a site of struggle against politics of dehumanization, oppression, exploitation, and systematic inequalities.

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“用圣经淹没这个国家”：Godfridah Sumaili 牧师，赞比亚的政治和人民圣经

自从赞比亚于 1991 年宣布为基督教国家以来，圣经已成为公众生活的基础，并经常在公开辩论中被引用。本文以符号权力作为分析工具，考察苏迈里的圣经国家神学，将公众的圣经政治化并简化为定义、塑造和决定治理赞比亚的意义和内容的国家机器。它提出了一种五旬节派的大众圣经神学，作为反对非人化、压迫、剥削和系统性不平等政治的斗争场所。