The Church in Africa 1450-1950

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Oxford History of the Christian Church GENERAL EDITORS: HENRY AND OWEN GHADWICK 'This is a magisterial work . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging, racy and idiosyncratic, swinging from detailed analysis to synthetic refiection with hardly a pause. ... I cannot recommend this book too highly for those who want either to begin reading about African Christianity; or to widen their knowledge. There can be few who will not here find something new.' Revd Adrián Chatfield, The Church of England Newspaper 'Well written, in teli igent and lively . . . will greatly stimulate anyone fortunate enough to read it' Times Literary Supplement This is the first major volume to chart the historical development and character of the whole Christian Church in Africa. Christianity provided the constitütive identity of historic Ethiopia from long before the fifteenth century, and from the nineteenth it entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasing number of other African peoples. In the course... Tovább

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Oxford History of the Christian Church GENERAL EDITORS: HENRY AND OWEN GHADWICK 'This is a magisterial work . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging, racy and idiosyncratic, swinging from detailed analysis to synthetic refiection with hardly a pause. ... I cannot recommend this book too highly for those who want either to begin reading about African Christianity; or to widen their knowledge. There can be few who will not here find something new.' Revd Adrián Chatfield, The Church of England Newspaper 'Well written, in teli igent and lively . . . will greatly stimulate anyone fortunate enough to read it' Times Literary Supplement This is the first major volume to chart the historical development and character of the whole Christian Church in Africa. Christianity provided the constitütive identity of historic Ethiopia from long before the fifteenth century, and 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. This book links together Ethiopian Orthodoxy, Román Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerous independent' churches of modern times, and focuses throughout on the role of conversion, the shaping of church life and its relationship to traditional values, and the impact of political power. Professor Hastings alsó compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development in Africa of Islam. Adrián Hastings is Emeritus Professor of Theology at the University of Leeds. Cover íllustraiion: wooderi poles carved by Shona craftsmen as supports to the altar of Our Lady, Serima Church, Zimbabwe. From Towards an African Expresmn of Christian Belief: Serima, pl. 16. Reproduced by permission of the Mambó Press. Vissza