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Biblical Christianity in Africa
The Souls of China
Author: Ian Johnson
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1101870052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).
Christianity and African Culture
The Death of Western Christianity
Author: Patrick Sookhdeo
Publisher: Isaac Publishing LLC
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780997703344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Death of Western Christianity surveys the current state of Christianity in the West, looking in particular at how Western culture has influenced and weakened the Church. It looks also at how Christianity is increasingly under attack in Western society, and becoming despised and marginalised. It points out how faithful Christians are being targeted by legal and other means and advises how they should prepare themselves for greater persecution to come. This is a prophetic book, which is timely.
Inculturation as Dialogue
Author: Chibueze C. Udeani
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9042022299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although Africa is today often seen, because of its large number of Christians, as the future hope of the Church, a closer examination of African Christianity, however, shows that the Christian faith has not taken deep root in Africa. Many Africans today declare themselves to be Christians but still remain followers of their traditional African religions, especially in matters concerning the inner dimensions of their lives. It is evident that, in strictly personal matters relating to such issues as passage rites and crises, most Africans turn to their African traditional religions. As an incarnational faith, part of the history of Christianity has been its encounter with other cultures and its becoming deeply rooted in some of these cultures. The central question remains: Why has the Christian faith not taken deep root in Africa? This volume is concerned with answering this question.
Upon This Rock
Author: Okechukwu Ogbonnaya
Publisher: Urban Ministries Inc
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780940955509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Resources and curricula "planned for use during Black history month, but may be used during Sunday School, youth meetings, and youth services. They are designed to discover the role of Africans in the growth and development of the church and its teachings."
Theology and Identity
Author: Kwame Bediako
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 1610974409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kwame Bediako examines the question of Christian identity in the context of the Greco-Roman culture of the early Roman Empire. He then addresses the modern African predicament of quests for identity and integration. Theology and Identity was one of the finalists for the 1992 HarperCollins Religious Book Award.
My Faith as an African
Author: Jean-Marc Ela
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1606086235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At a time when Africans, like other peoples, are facing the shock of technological and cultural modernity, liberation of the oppressed must be the primary condition for an authentic inculturation of the Christian message. This is the central axis of the papers in this book, which begins with the questions of faith posed by cultural variables, an internal dimension of the African's condition. In order to understand what is at stake, we need to place these matters in the overall context of a society and a history marked by conflicts-which lead to a rereading of our African memory. The basic issue of the Credibility of Christianity is being raised from with in the dynamic which allows Africans to escape from the inhumanity of the destiny to which certain factors would condemn them. So critical reflection on the relevance of an African Christianity requires us to identify the structures or strategies of exploitation and impoverishment against which Africans have always struggled, finding their own specific forms of resistance within their cultures.
African Christianity
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Publisher: Department of Church History University of Pretoria
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13:
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