Hermeneutics of Destiny: Àyànmó and the Yorùbá Philosophical Reconstruction Predestination

This book contributes a hermeneutically grounded, philosophically rigorous reinterpretation of predestination through Yorùbá metaphysics, offering African theology, intercultural hermeneutics, and Christian doctrine a fresh conceptual framework for understanding destiny, personhood, and divine agency. It is a product of a lifelong struggle to understand the mystery of destiny, suffering, and divine purpose within the African and Christian experience. It represents a personal, pastoral, and scholarly journey that seeks to interpret the relationship between the African worldview of destiny and the Christian doctrine of predestination. Drawing on hermeneutical philosophy (Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Heidegger), African cosmology, Yorùbá myths, and biblical theology, the book argues that àyànmọ̀ provides a relational, morally grounded, and spiritually dynamic understanding of destiny that enriches Christian theology. It demonstrates how Yorùbá Christians interpret biblical predestination through indigenous categories, creating a vibrant intercultural theology that speaks to African realities. This work fills a major gap in African theology, missiology, and intercultural hermeneutics by offering the most comprehensive study to date of Yorùbá predestination and its implications for Christian thought. The book bear religious, spiritual, hermeneutical and global signficance to an important reality of life and existence generally.