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Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of non-Western Religion

By: Series: Studies in world ChristianityPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2014.Description: xii, 276 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1570750483 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 276 20
LOC classification:
  • BR1360 .B39 1995
  • BR1360 .B39 1995
Contents:
pt. 1. Christianity in African Life: Some Concerns and Signs of Hope. I. 'Is Christianity Suited to the African?': The Legacy of Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Resurgence of a Nineteenth-century Intellectual Problem. II. African Identity: The Afrikania Challenge. III. Christianity and African Liberation: Reaffirming a Heritage. IV. 'How Is It That We Hear in Our Own Languages The Wonders of God?': Christianity as Africa's Religion. V. 'Here We Have no Abiding City': The Perennial Challenge -- pt. 2. Christianity as a Non-Western Religion: Issues Arising in a Post-missionary Setting. VI. The Primal Imagination and the Opportunity for a New Theological Idiom. VII. Translatability and the Cultural Incarnations of the Faith. VIII. Christianity as the Religion of the Poor of the Earth. IX. Towards a New Understanding of Christian History in the Post-missionary Era. X. The Gospel and the Transformation of the Non-Western World -- pt. 3. Into the Twenty-first Century -- Africa as a Christian Continent: The Prospects and Challenges. XI. The Making of Christian Africa: The Surprise Story of the Modern Missionary Movement. XII. Christian Religion and the African World-view: Will Ancestors Survive? XIII. Christian Religion and African Social Norms: Authority, Desacralisation and Democracy. XIV. The Place of Africa in a Changing World: The Christian Factor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Christianity in African Life: Some Concerns and Signs of Hope. I. 'Is Christianity Suited to the African?': The Legacy of Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Resurgence of a Nineteenth-century Intellectual Problem. II. African Identity: The Afrikania Challenge. III. Christianity and African Liberation: Reaffirming a Heritage. IV. 'How Is It That We Hear in Our Own Languages The Wonders of God?': Christianity as Africa's Religion. V. 'Here We Have no Abiding City': The Perennial Challenge --
pt. 2. Christianity as a Non-Western Religion: Issues Arising in a Post-missionary Setting. VI. The Primal Imagination and the Opportunity for a New Theological Idiom. VII. Translatability and the Cultural Incarnations of the Faith. VIII. Christianity as the Religion of the Poor of the Earth. IX. Towards a New Understanding of Christian History in the Post-missionary Era. X. The Gospel and the Transformation of the Non-Western World --
pt. 3. Into the Twenty-first Century --
Africa as a Christian Continent: The Prospects and Challenges. XI. The Making of Christian Africa: The Surprise Story of the Modern Missionary Movement. XII. Christian Religion and the African World-view: Will Ancestors Survive? XIII. Christian Religion and African Social Norms: Authority, Desacralisation and Democracy. XIV. The Place of Africa in a Changing World: The Christian Factor.

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