The Church in Africa, 1450-1950 /

This major history of the Christian Church in Africa spans five centuries and the whole compass of different Christian movements from the old Ethiopian Church to Catholic and Protestant missionaries and the ìndependent' churches of today.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hastings, Adrian
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1994.
Series:	Oxford history of the Christian Church.
Subjects:	Christianity > Africa. Africa > Church history. Church and state > Africa. Missions > Africa > History. Christianity and culture. Christianity and culture > Africa. Christianisme > Afrique. Église et État > Afrique. Missions > Afrique > Histoire. Christianisme et civilisation > Afrique. Inculturation > Afrique. Afrique > Histoire religieuse. RELIGION > Christianity > History. Christianity Christianity and culture Church and state Missions Africa Christendom. Christianisme > Afrique > Histoire. Chrétiens > Afrique > Histoire. Christianity > History Electronic books. Church history History
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Table of Contents:

pt. I. 1450-1780 : a medieval environment. The Ethiopian church in the age of Zara Ya'iqob ; Africa in 1500 and its Christian past ; The Kongo, Warri, Mutapa, and the Portuguese ; Riches to rags : Ethiopia 1500-1800
pt. II. 1780-1890 : from the anti-slavery to total subjugation. Equiano to Ntsikana : from the 1780s to the 1820s ; The lion revived : Ethiopia in the nineteenth century ; The Victorian missionary ; Kings, marriage, ancestors, and God ; Christian life in the age of Bishop Crowther
pt. III. 1890-1960 : the Christianizing of half a continent. A variety of scrambles : 1890-1920 ; From Agbebi to Diangienda : independency and prophetism ; Church, school, and state in the age of Bishop Kiwanuka.