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Planting of Christianity in Africa
A comprehensive narrative history in four volumes, of the various attempts to plant and develop Christianity in Africa.
ISBN-13: 9780227171752 |
A great four-volume history presenting in comprehensive perspective, within the limits of a single narrative, the various attempts to plant and develop Christianity in Africa. The method of presentation is chronological rather than regional, taking the whole story forward stage by stage rather than dealing completely with one region at a time. As Groves shows in his continental survey, Christianity is now in the midst of its third great attempt to occupy Africa.
Volume I (to 1840) deals with the land and its people; Christianity in the Apostolic Age; the early church in North Africa; Islam; slavery; the formation of Missionary Societies and the arrival of David Livingstone.
Volume II (1840-1878) covers the years in which the Christian faith – following the trail-blazing of Livingstone and Stanley in Central Africa and the Congo respectively – leaped ahead and became one of the formative factors in African life
Volume III (1878-1914) continues the account of the European penetration into Africa and describes the effect of the 'scramble for Africa' on the work of the various Christian missions and the growth of the Christian Churches.
Volume IV (1914-1954) surveys the period after the First World War in which startling and momentous changes took place, with upheavals in African society which have permanently affected the spread and influence of Christianity, and goes up to the era of decolonisation, which created an entirely new social and political background for the churches.
Dr Charles Pelham Groves was Professor of Missions at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. He served in Eastern Nigeria as a missionary for thirteen years and was President of the Society for African Church History.
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The Christian Understanding of History by Eric Rust
The Churchmanship of St Cyprian by George Walker
Coverdale and his Bibles by J.F. Mozley
Documents of the English Reformation by Gerald Bray
The Early Evangelicals: A Religious and Social Study by Leonard Elliott-Binns
Forerunners of the Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought by Heiko Augustinus Oberman
Islam and Christian Theology (4 Volume Set) by James Sweetman
Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church by W.H.C. Frend
The Oracles of God: An Introduction to the Preaching of John Calvin by Thomas Parker
The Progress of Dogma by James Orr
Puritans, the Millennium and the Future of Israel: Puritan Eschatology 1600 to 1660 by Peter Toon (editor)
Reformation Writings of Martin Luther (2 Volume Set) by Martin Luther
Reformation Views of Church History by Glanmor Williams
Religion in the Victorian Era by Leonard Elliott-Binns
The Rise of the Monophysite Movement by W.H.C. Frend
Sermons on Isaiah's Prophecy of the Death and Passion of Christ by John Calvin
The Theology of Calvin by Wilhelm Niesel
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