Malawi’s First Presbyterian Ministers

Malawi’s First Presbyterian Ministers PDF

Author: Kenneth Ross

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2024-01-23

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 9996066118

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Malawi's first two Presbyterian ministers, Harry Kambwiri Matecheta and Stephen Kundecha, were ordained in March 1911. Ecclesiastically, this made them fully equal with their European fellow-ministers. There were, however, subtle and not-so-subtle racial codes that reminded them that they were expected to occupy a subordinate position. This Occasional Paper explores how they discovered their identity and vocation in a challenging context.

Malawi's First Presbyterian Ministers

Malawi's First Presbyterian Ministers PDF

Author: Kenneth R Ross

Publisher: Luviri Press

Published: 2023-12-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789996066108

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Malawi's first two Presbyterian ministers, Harry Kambwiri Matecheta and Stephen Kundecha, were ordained in March 1911. Ecclesiastically, this made them fully equal with their European fellow-ministers. There were, however, subtle and not-so-subtle racial codes that reminded them that they were expected to occupy a subordinate position. This Occasional Paper explores how they discovered their identity and vocation in a challenging context.

Mission and Church in Malawi

Mission and Church in Malawi PDF

Author: Christoff Martin Pauw

Publisher: Digital on Demand

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1868045021

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Martin Pauw was born in 1940 at Madzimoyo Mission, Eastern Zambia, where both his grandparents and parents had served as missionaries. After completing his theological studies at the University of Stellenbosch, he was ordained in Malawi in the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) in 1965. Like his great grandfather, grandfather and father, he became a “missionary” – the fourth generation! He served as youth pastor and lecturer at the CCAP Theological College at Nkhoma until 1973. From 1975 he lectured at Justo Mwale Theological College of the Reformed Church in Zambia in Lusaka and from 1983 to 2001 he was lecturer and eventually professor in Missiology in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Stellenbosch (where he also had previously completed his doctoral studies with a thesis on the history of the CCAP Nkhoma Synod). Over the years Prof Pauw acted as study leader to a large number of under- and post graduate students, authored a considerable number of publications and served in various leadership positions in the church. After retiring as lecturer, he served the Western Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church for a further six years as Secretary for Witness and focussed on building partnerships between the DRC and sister churches in various countries in Africa. His vast experience in, knowledge of and passion for humbly serving the churches in Southern and Central Africa, is remarkable.

Blantyre Mission Stories of Its Beginning

Blantyre Mission Stories of Its Beginning PDF

Author: Harry Kambwiri Matecheta

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9789996066580

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When he was ordained in 1911, the Reverend Harry Kambwiri Matecheta became the first Malawian Presbyterian minister. Forty years later when he published Blantyre Mission: Nkhani za Chiyambi Chake (Hetherwick Press, 1951), he became Malawi's first church historian. Going beyond recounting facts, he offered his own distinctive analysis, which remains highly relevant to church and nation today. Thokozani Chilembwe and Todd Statham's beautifully prepared new edition makes this seminal text available to all who wish to expand their understanding of Malawi's history.

Christianity in Malawi: A Source Book

Christianity in Malawi: A Source Book PDF

Author: R. Ross

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2020-08-24

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9996060896

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Many scholars have noted the importance of Christianity in Malawi and have written on the social, economic and political influence of the Christian faith. What is harder to find is a study of the nature of the faith, and an analysis of the inner logic of the religious consciousness which developed in Malawi as its peoples responded to the Christian message. By bringing forward a selection of key primary sources this book provides the opportunity to read the story of Malawian Christianity "from the inside." It allows some Malawian Christians to speak for themselves so that church history might be formed by listening directly and critically to voices from the past. This revised and expanded edition includes all the primary texts that appeared in the original 1996 version as well as six additional documents that extend the range of the collection.

Malawi and Scotland Together in the Talking Place Since 1859

Malawi and Scotland Together in the Talking Place Since 1859 PDF

Author: Kenneth R. Ross

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9996027074

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This pioneering and fascinating book is the first to tell the story of the remarkably enduring bonds between Malawi and Scotland from the time of David Livingstone to the flourishing cultural, economic and religious relationships of the present day. Why should there be any significant relationship between one small nation on Europe's north-western seaboard and another in the interior of Africa? How did it reach the stage where in 2012 Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs in the Scottish Government, could describe Malawi as Scotland's "sister nation"? This book attempts an answer.

Sangaya

Sangaya PDF

Author: Silas S. Ncozana

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13:

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It is a book which will be a welcome addition to the literature on the transition "from mission to church" in African Christianity and will enable many readers to become acquainted with a great Malawian of a former generation.

A Malawi Church History 1860 - 2020

A Malawi Church History 1860 - 2020 PDF

Author: R. Ross

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 9996060756

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This is the first attempt to comprehend the whole of Malawi's church history in a single volume. The focus of this book is about documenting the religious experience which was at the centre of founding the new nation of Malawi as we have come to know it. The book strikes a balance in covering issues pertaining to both mission activities and African agency. In many instances interesting pieces of evidence have been marshalled to corroborate or emphasize some of the conclusions reached.

For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings

For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings PDF

Author: Klaus Fiedler

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2024-01-23

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9996066576

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Over the last decades, an ever-growing gap has developed between traditional marriage and the officiation of it as a church wedding, because of the expenses involved in a "proper" church wedding. These are not demanded by the churches, but by common social expectations. Irrespective of whether a church sees marriage as a sacrament or as a civil order, much emphasis is put on it, by the churches and by society. Many churches exclude those "not properly married" from the sacraments. But why should the churches put so much emphasis on their church wed-dings, a ritual not found in the New Testament, and which came into the church only almost a thousand years later?

Missionary Societies and the Fortunate Subversion of the Church

Missionary Societies and the Fortunate Subversion of the Church PDF

Author: Andrew Walls

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2024-01-02

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 9996066673

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Africa was not evangelized by the European (and American) churches, but by the European (and American) mission societies, a process that thoroughly changed the religious geography of Africa. This book traces the origin of this change to William Carey, who proposed in 1792 to make the mission society as a voluntary association the "Means" to propagate the Gospel. The mission societies did what the churches could not have done. In this seminal paper Andrew Walls explores this often forgotten feature of missionary history.