Author : Elizabeth Isichei
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 1995
Category : 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.
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Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
Page : 2162 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : 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
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : 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 : Bengt Sundkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521583428
Bengt Sundkler's long-awaited book on African Christian churches will become the standard reference for the subject.
Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : 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
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : 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 : Jonathan Hildebrandt
Publisher : Iacademic Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
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Author : Richard Elphick
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1997
Category : 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 : Adrian Hastings
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1979-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521222129
The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged across the last decades in bewildering variety to selfhood, a membership of close on a hundred million adherents and an influential role both within their own societies and in the world Church. This book surveys the history of Christianity throughout sub-Saharan Africa during the third quarter of this century. It begins in 1950 at a time when the churches were still for the most part emphatically part of the colonial order and it takes the story on from there across the coming of political independence and the transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Author : John Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0061980595
“Jenkins is one of America’s top religious scholars.” —Forbes magazine The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary view of the history of the Christian church. Subtitled “The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died,” it explores the extinction of the earliest, most influential Christian churches of China, India, and the Middle East, which held the closest historical links to Jesus and were the dominant expression of Christianity throughout its first millennium. The remarkable true story of the demise of the institution that shaped both Asia and Christianity as we know them today, The Lost History of Christianity is a controversial and important work of religious scholarship that sounds a warning that must be heeded.
