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CHRISTIANITY AND AFRICAN CULTURE
International Review of Mission, 1995As we African Christian intellectuals continue to meet to discuss Christianity and African culture, other African Christians are in the process daily of shaping a Christianity that will be at home in Africa and in which Africans will be at home. Very few African Christian theologians have found a way of being part of what I would like to name "the ...
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The Bible in African Christianity
2017African vernacular translations of the Bible facilitate meaningful engagement with the text, fostering unique interpretations that blend indigenous perspectives with biblical teachings. This integration is apparent in various aspects of African life, including church services, social critique, and family values, where the Bible addresses contemporary ...
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Trajectories in African Christianity
International journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2008This article tries to chart developments in African Christianity south of the Sahara (though leaving South Africa aside, because of its own unique dynamic). It divides African Christianity into two rough and ready categories – mainline and ‘Pentecostal’.
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African Nationalism and Christianity
Transition, 1963Christianity has been swaying the continent of Africa since the latter half of the nineteenth century. It ministered to a gigantic continent of subject peoples who had been forced into a position of second-rate citizenship. But now Christianity finds itself ministering to a continent that is being swayed, during the latter half of the twentieth Century,
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Crosscurrents in African Christianity
2016This essay addresses three important but related concerns in African Chris tianity: (1) the cross-cultural forces driving the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa; (2) how these cross-cultural forces affect interdenominational and interreligious conflicts; and (3) some concluding proposals on how an African religioculturai concept of ...
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2011
In Making African Christianity author Robert J. Houle argues that Africans successfully naturalized Christianity. This book examines the long history of the faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amakholwa) in what would become South Africa. As it has become clear that Africans are not discarding Christianity, a number of scholars have taken up
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In Making African Christianity author Robert J. Houle argues that Africans successfully naturalized Christianity. This book examines the long history of the faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amakholwa) in what would become South Africa. As it has become clear that Africans are not discarding Christianity, a number of scholars have taken up
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