Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Catholicism in Southern Africa
Author: African Catholic
Author: Elizabeth A. FosterPublisher:
ISBN: 0674987667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Elizabeth Foster examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to create an authentically "African" church.
The Catholic Church in Contemporary Southern Africa
Author: J. B. BrainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Catholic Church and Apartheid
Author: Garth AbrahamPublisher: Raven Press (South Africa)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reveals that in the years immediately after the National Party's victory in 1948, the Catholic Church adopted an essential conciliatory approach. This was an attempt to mollify the secular power, which openly espoused the Roomse-gevaar mentality of the Dutch Reformed Churches. Examines the crucial decade after 1948, during which the Church moved from appeasement to resistance, and analyzes the motivations and forces which finally drove the Church to make the choice it did--a choice which has served to define and determine its future development in South Africa.
Christianity in South Africa
Author: Richard ElphickPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209404
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
"At a strategic time in South Africa's history, the Christian history which is absolutely basic to all developments, is presented in a comprehensive and objective way. Too little attention is given to the influence of religion in socio-political accounts. This is a creative and much-needed contribution to scholarship and general knowledge. . . . An outstanding work."--Dean S. Gilliland, Fuller Theological Seminary
Community Serving Humanity
Author: Southern African Catholic Bishops' ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Race relations
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Church We Want
Author: Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608336689
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Featuring essays from a broad range of contributors this book is a treasure for anyone interested in theological reflection from an African perspective and is a necessary resource for theologians and scholars working in a church that is steadily moving its center to the Global South.
Serving Humanity, a Sabbath Reflection
Author: Stuart C. BatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pastoral theology
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Christianity in South Africa
Author: Richard ElphickPublisher: James Currey
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Almost three-quarters of South Africans in the late-1990s call themselves Christians. From colonial times, when missionaries embroiled themselves in frontier conflicts, until recently, when both defenders and opponents of apartheid draw heavily upon Christian doctrine and ritual, Christian impulses have shaped South Africa.
African Catholicism
Author: Adrian HastingsPublisher: SCM Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Twenty or more years have passed since the Second Vatican Council made African Catholicism seem a feasible, bewitching mixture of Gospel freedom, mediaeval en rootedness and Third World contemporaneity. Now it has entered a 'dark tunnel', a church of silence working out its future in isolation, poverty and faith. In these essays Adrian Hastings analyses aspects of African Catholicism today, the prophetic role of the christian church in Africa, the sacrificial death of some of its prophetic figures, the ambiguous situation of the church in racist South Africa, the position of women who are Christianity's principal asset, the importance of African theology, now a lived rather than a published, phenomenon and the ambiguous figure of Archbishop Milingo, exorcist and healer. A single theme binds them together, that of the abiding ministerial reality of the village, the priestless peasant religion which has made Catholicism in Africa as indigenous as maize meal or banana beer. Adrian Hastings draws on examples ancient and modern to illustrate this theme: the Donatists of fourth-century North Africa the Monophysites of Egypt, and his own personal experience of a rural parish in Uganda. No longer in a formal structure of ministry himself, Hastings launches a hard-hitting attack on an ultramontanist, curial bureaucracy. This is a controversial, but fascinating, book, which affords many important glimpses of what is happening in the 'dark tunnel".