A History Of Christianity In Africa
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Author | : Elizabeth Isichei |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802808433 |
Isichei's thorough study surveys the full breadth of Christianity in Africa, from the early story of Egyptian Christianity to the churches of the Middle Years (1500-1800) to the prolific success of missions throughout the 1900s. This important book fills a conspicuous void of scholarly works on Africa's Christian history. Includes 26 maps.
Author | : Bengt Sundkler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1268 |
Release | : 2000-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521583428 |
Bengt Sundkler's long-awaited book on African Christian churches will become the standard reference for the subject.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 2162 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 1496424719 |
The Africa Study Bible brings together 350 contributors from over 50 countries, providing a unique African perspective. It's an all-in-one course in biblical content, theology, history, and culture, with special attention to the African context. Each feature was planned by African leaders to help readers grow strong in Jesus Christ by providing understanding and instruction on how to live a good and righteous life--Publisher.
Author | : Paul Johnson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2012-03-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451688512 |
First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude—“a tour de force, one of the most ambitious surveys of the history of Christianity ever attempted and perhaps the most radical” (New York Review of Books). In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year AD 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known ‘Jesus Sect’, A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity—and its trials and tribulations throughout history—has never before been contained in such a captivating work.
Author | : Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2010-07-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830837051 |
Thomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries, and makes an impassioned plea for the rediscovery of that heritage. Christians throughout the world will benefit from this reclaiming of an important heritage.
Author | : Roland Spliesgart |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2007-09-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802828892 |
Taking the three continents in turn, the documents trace chronologically the transfer of Christianity from the beginning of Western colonization through the end of the Cold War. Traditional forms of Christianity in Asia and Africa are not covered. The emphasis is on the voices of people working in the field--both missionaries and Indigenous people--rather than those at the imperial centers.
Author | : Adrian Hastings |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198263996 |
Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.
Author | : Richard Elphick |
Publisher | : James Currey |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Almost three-quarters of South Africans in the late-1990s call themselves Christians. From colonial times, when missionaries embroiled themselves in frontier conflicts, until recently, when both defenders and opponents of apartheid draw heavily upon Christian doctrine and ritual, Christian impulses have shaped South Africa.
Author | : Elias Kifon Bongmba |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134505841 |
The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African continent and throughout a long historical span. The volume offers historical and thematic essays tracing the introduction of Christianity in Africa, as well as its growth, developments, and effects, including the lived experience of African Christians. Individual chapters address the themes of Christianity and gender, the development of African-initiated churches, the growth of Pentecostalism, and the influence of Christianity on issues of sexuality, music, and public health. This comprehensive volume will serve as a valuable overview and reference work for students and researchers worldwide.
Author | : John Philip Jenkins |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2008-10-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0061980595 |
The New York Times bestselling history of early Christianity in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—from “one of America’s best scholars of religion” (The Economist). In this groundbreaking book, renowned scholar Philip Jenkins explores a vast and forgotten network of the world’s largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their leaders ruled the Middle East for centuries and became the chief administrators and academics in the new Muslim empire. The author recounts the shocking history of how these churches—those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church—eventually died. Jenkins offers a new lens through which to view our world today, including the current conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Without this lost history, we lack an important element for understanding our collective religious past. By understanding the forgotten catastrophe that befell Christianity, we can appreciate the surprising new births that are occurring in our own time, once again making Christianity a true world religion.