The Church in Africa, 1450-1950
Title | The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Hastings |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Pages | 726 |
Release | 1995-01-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191520551 |
"I can merely admire his courage in tackling so complex and difficult a subject; he should succeed in stimulating a fresh generation of research... this well-written, intelligent and lively study will greatly stimulate anyone fortunate enough to read it." Christianity provided the constitutive identity of historic Ethiopia. From the sixteenth century, and increasingly from the nineteenth, it entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasing number of other African peoples. In the course of the twentieth century, African Christians have become a major part of the world Church, and arguably modern African history as a whole is not intelligible without its powerful Christian element. Yet despite the great advance in African historiography over the last forty years, this is the first major volume to consider the historical development and character of the Christian Church in Africa as a whole, linking together Ehtiopia Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerousm 'Independent' churches of modern times. The book focuses throughout on the role of coversion, the shaping of Church life and its relationship to traditional values, and the impact of political power. Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comprable development of Islam in Africa.
The Church in Africa, 1450-1950
Title | The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Hastings |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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.
A History of Christianity in Africa
Title | A History of Christianity in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Isichei |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
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.
A History of the Church in Africa
Title | A History of the Church in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Bengt Sundkler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
History of Christianity
Title | History of Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Johnson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
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.
A Church in Africa
Title | A Church in Africa PDF eBook |
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Release | 2019 |
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Description: Mass-produced photograph of exterior view of an unidentified church. Africa.
Christianity in India
Title | Christianity in India PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Eric Frykenberg |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 611 |
Release | 2008-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198263775 |
This study explores historical understandings of Christian communities, cultures, and institutions within the Indian world from their beginnings to the present time. Frykenberg focuses on trans-cultural interactions within Hindu and Muslim environments, uncovering complexities as Christianity intermingled with indigenous cultures.