Book Description
While African Christianity has wholeheartedly appropriated the symbols, scriptures, and traditions of historic Christianity elsewhere, it has also built on the rich history of the continent's indigenous spiritual beliefs.
Author : Gerrie ter Haar
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0812241738
While African Christianity has wholeheartedly appropriated the symbols, scriptures, and traditions of historic Christianity elsewhere, it has also built on the rich history of the continent's indigenous spiritual beliefs.
Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 35,99 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 : Gerrie ter Haar
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9782009017227
Author :
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
Page : 2162 pages
File Size : 35,31 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 : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199790582
This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Author : Jean Allman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2005-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0253111838
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.
Author : Lindley Baldwin
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1987-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871239501
The extraordinary story of the young African who came to be called "The Apostle of Simple Faith."While most missionary biographies detail the lives of Western missionaries, this is the story of the African missionary that God called to the United States when slavery and segregation were a way of life. Previously published under the title The March of Faith, this book details the moving life story of Samuel Morris.After a miraculous escape from certain death during the ravages of intertribal warfare in Liberia, Africa, Kaboo was converted to Christ by Methodist missionaries and baptized under the name Samuel Morris. Traveling to America for pastoral training in the late 1880's, his trip was a missionary voyage in itself when several seamen were lead to Christ through his godly life. At Taylor University his example of faith made him a leader among the students and a challenge to the faulty.An unforgettable biography which shows Christ's love felling all racial barriers.
Author : Gerald West
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004497102
Although the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830868887
We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller a picture of Mark exists within widespread African tradition, tradition that holds that Mark himself was from North Africa, that he founded the church in Alexandria, that he was an eyewitness to the Last Supper and Pentecost, that he was related not only to Barnabas but to Peter as well and accompanied him on many of his travels. In this provocative reassessment of early church tradition, Thomas C. Oden begins with the palette of New Testament evidence and adds to it the range of colors from traditional African sources, including synaxaries (compilations of short biographies of saints to be read on feast days), archaeological sites, non-Western historical documents and ancient churches. The result is a fresh and illuminating portrait of Mark, one that is deeply rooted in African memory and seldom viewed appreciatively in the West.
Author : Elizabeth Isichei
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 27,74 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.