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A history of African Christianity, 1950-1975
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ISBN: 0521293979 0521222125 0511563175 Year: 1979 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

African Christianity : its public role.
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ISBN: 0253334179 0253212049 Year: 1998 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press


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African enchiridion : documents and texts of the catholic church in the African world.
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ISBN: 8830714585 9788830714588 8830715298 9788830715295 8830715972 9788830715974 9788830717183 8830717185 Year: 2005 Publisher: Bologna EMI

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A history of Christianity in Africa : from antiquity to the present.
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ISBN: 0865434433 9780865434431 Year: 1995 Publisher: Grand Rapids Eerdmans

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L'aspect d'autonomie et de communion dans la praxis africaine des recours à Rome (IIIe-Ve siècles) : essai d'interprétation du comportement ambivalent de l'épiscopat africain.
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ISBN: 8876528830 9788876528835 Year: 2001 Volume: 3 Publisher: Roma Pontificia Università Gregoriana


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La mission politique de l'Eglise et des chrétiens : enjeux des intuitions de Jean-Baptiste Metz pour l'engagement social de l'Eglise en Afrique
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ISBN: 9782343147208 2343147205 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan

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Le problème de fond qui met en mouvement la rédaction de ce livre est celui de la praxis sotériologique de la foi dans la société, et surtout, la pertinence de son engagement politique pour le devenir-sujet de tous devant Dieu. La question fondamentale, à laquelle tout le reste est subordonné, est de savoir quelle est la pertinence de la mission politique de l'Eglise et des chrétiens pour les droits des pauvres aujourd'hui ? Voilà ce que nous voulons analyser dans notre travail, en prenant comme clé de lecture une évaluation critique de l'histoire, une herméneutique de la déprivatisation, et une praxis de l'espérance chrétienne qui prône la dimension publique de la foi ecclésiale dans la société. Dans cette optique, la mission politique de l'Eglise et des chrétiens devient une réponse de la foi qui prône le devenir sujets acteurs de tout Homme dans et en dehors de l'Eglise et promouvoir "une culture de l'anamnèse". Un tel dispositif théologique peut aider concrètement l'Eglise d'Afrique à plaider pour une valorisation de l'autorité de tous ceux qui souffrent afin de devenir-sujet de leur propre histoire.

A history of the church in Africa
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ISBN: 052158342X 1107113989 0511116667 1423762606 0511156227 0511304080 0511497377 1280161744 0511054033 9780521583428 9781423762607 9780511054037 9780511116667 9786610161744 6610161747 9780511497377 9781107113985 9781280161742 9780511156229 9780511304088 Year: 2000 Volume: 74 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The late Bengt Sundkler, missionary, bishop, and academic, pioneered the study of independent churches in Africa. In this magisterial work, he reviews the entire history of the development of Christianity in all regions of the continent. In contrast to the conventional focus on the missionary enterprise, Professor Sundkler places the African converts at the centre of the study. African Christians, typically drawn from the margins of society, reinterpreted the Christian message, proselytised, governed local congregations, and organised independent churches. Emphasising African initiatives in the process of Christianisation, he argues that its development was shaped by African kings and courts, the history of labour migration, and local experiences of colonisation. This long-awaited book will become the standard reference on African Christian churches.

Eglise et histoire de l'église en Afrique : actes du Colloque de Bologne, 22 - 25 octobre 1988.
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ISBN: 2701012058 9782701012056 Year: 1988 Volume: 18 Publisher: Paris Beauchesne


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The lost history of Christianity : the thousand-year golden age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa and Asia - and how it died.
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ISBN: 9780745953670 0745953670 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Lion

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This book tells a surprising story. Many think of Christianity as a Western faith, which grew out of its origins in the Middle East towards Rome and into Europe, paving the way for the Enlightenment, science and modernity. However, Philip Jenkins reveals, the largest and most influential churches of Christianity's youth lay to the east of Rome, covered the world from China to North Africa, encountered a full spectrum of acceptance to persecution under Islamic rule and only expired after a thousand-year reign after Constantine. This is the story of these churches of the East and how they became extinct - but not before becoming the dominant expression of Christianity for its first 1,000 years and helping to shape both the Asia and the Christianity we know today.


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African Catholic : decolonization and the transformation of the Church
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ISBN: 9780674987661 0674987667 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press

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Makes original contributions to French history, African history, the history of Catholicism, and religious studies. The book approaches the history of late colonialism and decolonization in French sub-Saharan Africa from an entirely new political and cultural perspective, by examining it through the prism of religion. Drawing on a plethora of African and French voices, it brings to life a Franco-African Catholic world that had been forged by conquest, colonization, missions, and conversions, and still exists today. Its denizens were preoccupied with the future of France's African colonies, the place of Catholicism in Africa, and whether their personal loyalties should lie with the Vatican, France, or emerging African states. Many leading African intellectuals were Catholics, and the book shows that there was an important Catholic strand of the negritude movement, which has been completely ignored by scholars and impacted the church at the highest levels. This finding contributes to the book's new, striking story of Catholic reform at mid-century, showing how decolonization was a pivotal factor in the reorientation of the church at Vatican II.--

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