Interdenominational Faith Missions In Africa

Author : Fiedler, Klaus
Publisher : Mzuni Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996060465

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Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa by Fiedler, Klaus Pdf

It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.

Author : Klaus Fiedler
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996060458

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Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa by Klaus Fiedler Pdf

It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.

Author : Klaus Fiedler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610974783

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The Story of Faith Missions by Klaus Fiedler Pdf

Born of nineteenth-century Evangelical Awakening, and closely linked to Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission he founded in 1865, faith missions were unique in two key areas: they were interdenominational and they held firmly to the 'faith principle' of financial support. The faith mission movement has lost none of its vitality and relevance as it continues to play an important evangelistic role in Africa and worldwide. The result of more than a decade of research in Africa, Europe and the United States, and extensively supported by maps and charts, this book is the most comprehensive study available on the faith mission movement in Africa. Setting faith missions in the context of the many revival and missionary movements, which have shaped Protestant church history, the author describes their spiritual and practical evolution over 125 years, and outlines the challenges they face today.

Author : Klaus Fiedler
Publisher : OCMS
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1870345185

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The Story of Faith Missions by Klaus Fiedler Pdf

Author : R. Ross
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789996060755

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A Malawi Church History 1860 - 2020 by R. Ross Pdf

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.

Author : Hany Longwe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996066436

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Setting the Record Straight by Hany Longwe Pdf

"Kusadziwa Nkufa Komwe"(Lack of Knowledge is as Being Dead) is a Nyanja maxim, African Philosophy that is true the world over. A person who lacks knowledge is as good as dead, inactive and insensitive. A dead person does not contribute to good life. Lack of knowledge leads to destruction, but having knowledge leads to informed decisions and freedom. Setting the Record Straight is about correction wrong understanding and replacing it with liberating knowledge, to the benefit of both church and society.

Author : Adrian Hastings
Publisher : [New York] : Fordham University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCAL:$B771244

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Church and Mission in Modern Africa by Adrian Hastings Pdf

Author : Klaus Fiedler
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996066573

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For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings by Klaus Fiedler Pdf

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?

Author : James Karanja
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Church growth
ISBN : 9783867278560

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The Missionary Movement in Colonial Kenya by James Karanja Pdf

Author : L. Frey
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996066498

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History of the Zambia Baptist Association 1905-2005 by L. Frey Pdf

Much good academic work has been done on the mainline churches in many African countries. But less so on the "smaller" missions and the churches that they founded. This book describes the history of one of the "smaller" churches the Zambia Baptist Association with its roots in Malawi (1905) and its missionary connections to England, South Africa, Sweden, Australia and finally to the Liebenzell Mission in Germany. It is thus one of the many contributions needed for the writing of a history of the Evangelical churches of Africa.

Author : H. Haus
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996060298

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Carl Hugo and Mary Gutsche and the "German" Baptists of the Eastern Cape by H. Haus Pdf

In 1859 the British "imported" 445 German settler families to strengthen the colonial borders in British Kaffraria (now Eastern Cape) in South Africa. Three of these settler families were Baptists, they evangelized their fellow Germans and anyone else they met. In 1867 Johann Gerhard Oncken of Hamburg, the founder of the Baptist Churches in Continental Europe, sent Hugo Gutsche to take care of the new Baptist community there and evangelize the native population. The author of this book, Fritz Haus, the last of Gutsche's German successors, wrote his PhD on the life and work of Hugo Gutsche, graduating from the University of Stellenbosch at the age of 80. Haus describes his ministry to White and Black over half a century and he does not forget Mrs Mary Gutsche, whom her husband called his "co-pastor."

Author : Fiedler, Klaus
Publisher : Mzuni Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789990802498

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Conflicted Power in Malawian Christianity by Fiedler, Klaus Pdf

The volume constitutes Klaus Fiedler's crowning contribution to scholarship. Essays in the first half of the book focus on Malawian Christianity and how contrasting Powers, Gospel and Secular, engage each other, creating social, political and cultural conflict in the process. In the second half, Fiedler examines general missiological themes. These essays provide a broader missiological background, offering a theoretical framework necessary for appreciating the essays in the first half. He concludes with a chapter that reviews selected seminal books on themes under study. Throughout the volume Fiedler applies the "restorationist revival theory" he constructed in The Story of Faith Missions, an earlier 1994 work putting emphasis on non classical missions and churches, not systematically covered in earlier scholarship. This volume, the first of its kind on Malawian Christianity, will long remain an indispensable text for those interested in Missiology and Malawian Christianity.

Author : Barden Chirwa
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996060434

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Mission in Progress by Barden Chirwa Pdf

Since the establishment of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Malawi in 1902, there is now available much information on the cases, narratives and experiences of women that shows the contribution of women to the progress of the SDA mission in Malawi. That record reveals a notable increase in the developing role of women in the SDA Church in Malawi, blended with both successful and challenging experiences. This has prompted the writing of this book. My aim is to present a historical record of the developing role of women in the SDA Church in Malawi. The purpose is to provide a first critical analysis, in a Malawian context, of a wider range of biblical and socio-cultural issues affecting the role of women in the SDA Church in Malawi.

Author : Robert Dana
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789996066887

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The Dutch Reformed Women's Missionary Movement from the Cape and the Mt Holyoke Connection by Robert Dana Pdf

This book reinterprets the history of South African Dutch Reformed missions as a women's movement. It traces American women missionaries from Mt. Holyoke College who went to southern Africa in the late 1800s to teach Dutch Reformed girls. Dutch Reformed women then formed a missionary network to send the educated women throughout southern Africa, and into Malawi and Zimbabwe. Missionary women modeled a combination of education and piety that inspired African church women's leadership and enabled Reformed churches to spread throughout the region. Not only does the book show how American women introduced a distinctive missionary piety into Reformed missions, but it also places women at the center of southern African mission history.

Author : S. Nkhoma
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789996060854

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Mission in Malawi: Essays in Honour of Klaus Fiedler by S. Nkhoma Pdf

The first four essays in Mission in Malawi reassess the meaning, nature and place of mission in a postmodern world. Subsequent essays examine various issues that missionaries and the Church in Malawi have and continue to struggle with. These range from the problem of administering church discipline, the challenge of Bible translation, the question of how to deal with corruption in the corridors of power to the challenges of dealing with initiation rites, HIV/AIDS, patriarchy, gender inequality, the exercise of the Church's prophetic role, lack of contextualized theology, and the difficult task of creating an inclusive church and society. The last three essays are an attempt to describe a contextual theology appropriate for the African church, construct a theology for Malawi and project a future for mission in Malawi in the context of a changing world. These essays offer a rare window into the life and struggles of the Malawian Church even as it faces the postmodern future. The essays are not only informative but also challenging and thought-provoking. Scholars, students and other readers who share an interest in mission and the life of the Church in Malawi will find this collection of essays indispensable in the many years to come.