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Book Synopsis An African Pilgrimage on Evangelism by : John Wesley Zwomunondiita Kurewa
Download or read book An African Pilgrimage on Evangelism written by John Wesley Zwomunondiita Kurewa and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How easily we forget that it was Africans who brought the gospel to Africa, not foreign missionaries! Evangelism has always been central to African Christianity, ever since Egyptians and Libyans returned home from Jerusalem following the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). In this brief history of the church in Africa, Dr. John Kurewa highlights the major approaches to evangelism that the church employed over the centuries, for better and for worse. Then, in historical context, Kurewa zeroes in on those distinctive methods of evangelism, proclamation and disciple formation that shaped a diverse yet vibrant African Methodism. Thanks to this historical review, we stand to gain fresh vision for ministries of evangelism that truly can fulfill the Great Commission—to make disciples of Jesus Christ.
Book Synopsis African Pilgrimage by : Retief Müller
Download or read book African Pilgrimage written by Retief Müller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after the end of Apartheid South Africa remains racially polarized and socially divided. In this context pilgrimage and travelling rituals serve to help those who often find themselves at the bottom end of the social ladder to make sense of their world. This book describes a South Africa that is made up of a number of different fragmented worlds. The focus is on the Zion Christian Church, one of the largest religious movements in southern Africa, and a good example of indigenized African Christianity. Pilgrimage plays an important role in reintegrating some of those fragmented worlds into something approaching wholeness. This book tells the story of how the enduring ritual of pilgrimage is transforming African religion, along with the lives of ordinary South Africans.
Book Synopsis Preaching and Cultural Identity by : John Wesley Zwomunondiita Kurewa
Download or read book Preaching and Cultural Identity written by John Wesley Zwomunondiita Kurewa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this book is threefold: (1) that the Church in Africa continues to affirm the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ; (2) that the Church in Africa learns afresh to indigenize itself to the point that Christianity truly becomes an African religion; and (3) that preaching in Africa needs to increasingly use African historical, cultural, traditional-religious concepts, imagery, and idiom (rather than missionary-given Western forms) in order to communicate the gospel more effectively in the new millennium. Kurewa invites the African Church to take a closer look at African culture as God-given, rather than continuing to preach, worship, sing, and counsel as if imitating Western missionaries. Kurewa urges the African Church to claim its own culture with pride and integrity. He gives examples on how specific customs can be integrated into Christian life, worship, and preaching.
Download or read book Sent Forth written by Kwiyani, Harvey C and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colonial Evangelism by : Thomas O. Beidelman
Download or read book Colonial Evangelism written by Thomas O. Beidelman and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dynamics and Contradictions of Evangelisation in Africa by : Acho Awoh
Download or read book The Dynamics and Contradictions of Evangelisation in Africa written by Acho Awoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically discusses missionary Christianity and colonization in Africa as twin enterprises with a common ambition. While the colonialist set out to invest capital and reap profit, the missionary desire was to tend and turn African souls from damnation. It was this desire that drove the missionaries into the interior, propelled by the belief that no land was too remote to escape their attention and vigilance. It equally kept missionary zeal buoyant. The clarification of the concept of salvation within the Roman Catholic Church during the Vatican II Council set in motion the current lethargy that has in some places crippled the mission itself. In retrospect, one can begin to wonder why Africans became Christians. What reasons motivated the early adherents to cling to this foreign religion? Were there some internal deficiencies in African traditional religions, which the Africans hoped to remedy by joining the new religion? Or was it just part of the wholesale flirting with whatever was foreign and perceived to be modern? What baits were used by the missionaries to entice Africans? Christianity posed a danger to many of the time-honoured answers to African problems. These were the values Africans converting to Christianity were expected to abandon. Why have Christians continually returned to their abandoned roots in time of crisis? This moving, well argued, richly documented and empirically substantiated study concludes by cautioning against the stubborn drive at radical conversion to Christianity with scant regard to the imperatives of enculturation.
Book Synopsis The Preachers of a Different Gospel by : Femi B. Adeleye
Download or read book The Preachers of a Different Gospel written by Femi B. Adeleye and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Name it and claim it!” “Just have faith!” “Give and you will get!” Catchphrases like this have convinced many Christians that trusting in God will bring health and wealth. But the gospel does not promise prosperity without pain or salvation without sanctification. Femi Adeleye draws on his wide-ranging experience as he examines the appeal and peril of this new gospel of prosperity that has made deep inroads in Africa, as well as in the West.
Book Synopsis My Faith as an African by : Jean-Marc Ela
Download or read book My Faith as an African written by Jean-Marc Ela and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Evangelization and Church Growth in the African Context by : Jenny Youngman
Download or read book Evangelization and Church Growth in the African Context written by Jenny Youngman and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this time when the church is experiencing a tremendous growth in members and in the number of denominations, such questions like the "what," "why," and "how" of evangelism need to be addressed. This resource gives answers and guidance to these and other important questions. Foreword by Bishop Joaquina Nhanala.
Download or read book African Christianity written by and published by Department of Church History University of Pretoria. This book was released on 2005 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Reflection on Diaspora Cross-Cultural Evangelism by : Abeneazer Gezahegn Urga
Download or read book A Reflection on Diaspora Cross-Cultural Evangelism written by Abeneazer Gezahegn Urga and published by Abeneazer\Urga. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recent decades have provided Christians with an increasing interaction with various world religions. The growth of immigration from non-Christian nations combined with a greater global awareness through travel and communication have confronted Diaspora Christians with the reality of diversity in faith, culture and practices. This book which is in your hand will remind you that many men and women in the Bible served God even more tremendously in a foreign land than in their own home country. Reading this book will help Diaspora Christians to mobilize their minds and hearts to see the evangelistic purpose of God for them and their church in whatever country they are in. But this book is not only for Diaspora churches. It is also for "Welcomer" churches, since it will help them to understand how to integrate with the Diaspora churches, to cooperate and recognize their common ground of mission with the intention of reaching the lost together." Pastor Daniel Habte Eritrean Church Planter Amarillo, Texas "This is a great piece of work that must be made available for Africans to read. Abeneazer has carefully outlined our challenges we face or mistakes we do as African Christians." Owusu Ansah Boakye Ghanaian PhD Candidate, Texas State University "This book is an important contribution to the Diaspora Church which represents a massive amount of observation and careful thinking. Abeneazer inspires and re-energizes the Diaspora Church Christians to share the Gospel with others with love and passion regardless of the challenges facing the Church today. As a Diaspora Christian in Europe, I have found the book to be eye-opening and it gives me a fresh perspective on the greatest mission of all." Engineer Mintesinot T. Wodajo Sweden "This book helps us to see the Gospel as the solution for the needs and challenges of the African Diaspora. Having lived in both Africa and America, in both lack and abundance, I have seen that material things have never changed a person's life for eternity. Only the Gospel does. The legacy that we want to pass on to future African descendants is a life transformation which comes from fully embracing the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Emmanuel Ambane Cameroonian minister among International Students Old Dominion University, Virginia Beach, VA "Abeneazer has done it - he has enlightened us on how to bear much fruit in the West as Diaspora cross-cultural evangelists. This is a book that will challenge, encourage and move us forward with an agenda that is God-centered and Christ-exalting and driven by the Holy Spirit." Kennedy Mulinge Kenyan Assistant Director South Carolina Christian Chamber of Commerce "It is a book that should be read by everyone who profess Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord, since every believer in the Son of God is a 'Diaspora' for he is living in the earthly world, longing for a better country- the heavenly one. For those who are planning to get engaged in cross cultural mission work, it is all the more a must read one." Blene Moltotal Former Chairwoman of EvaSUE Board
Book Synopsis Creative Evangelism: Towards a New Christian Encounter with Africa by : Harry Sawyerr
Download or read book Creative Evangelism: Towards a New Christian Encounter with Africa written by Harry Sawyerr and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesus in Africa written by Kwame Bediako and published by OCMS. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Methodism and American Empire by : David William Scott
Download or read book Methodism and American Empire written by David William Scott and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living into a less colonial way of being together. Methodism and American Empire investigates historical trajectories and theological developments that connect American imperialism since World War II to the Methodist tradition as a global movement. The volume asks: to what extent is United Methodists’ vision of the globe marred by American imperialism? Through historical analyses and theological reflections, this volume chronicles the formation of an understanding of The United Methodist Church since the mid-20th century that is both global and at the same time dominated by American interests and concerns. Methodism and American Empire provides a historical and theological perspective to understand the current context of The United Methodist Church while also raising ecclesiological questions about the impact of imperialism on how Methodists have understood the nature and mission of the church over the last century. Gathering voices and perspectives from around the world, this volume suggests that the project of global Methodism and the tensions one witnesses therein ought to be understood in the context of American imperialism and that such an understanding is critical to the task of continuing to be a global denomination. The volume tells a tale of complex negotiations happening between United Methodists across different national, cultural, and ecclesial contexts and sets up the historical backdrop for the imminent schism of The United Methodist Church.
Book Synopsis Three Days in the Life of an African Christian Villager by : Jim Harries
Download or read book Three Days in the Life of an African Christian Villager written by Jim Harries and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Days in the Life of an African Christian Villager While sitting reflectively watching the smoke emerging from his wife’s kitchen, this African villager recounts his thoughts and observations on just three days of village life. On Friday, his boss tries to deal with a fall in profit margins of the company he works for. Saturday’s account explains some of the intrigues surrounding just another village funeral. Village Christianity becomes the focus of Sunday. Read this intriguing little diary, a close literal translation from an original in Dholuo (of western Kenya), to begin to acquire fascinating insights into contemporary village life as an African Christian man. This book is suitable to be used as a part of courses on missions, African Christianity and culture, development and intercultural communication at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Book Synopsis The Pilgrimage of the African Church by : Zablon John Nthamburi
Download or read book The Pilgrimage of the African Church written by Zablon John Nthamburi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jesus and the Gospel in Africa by : Kwame Bediako
Download or read book Jesus and the Gospel in Africa written by Kwame Bediako and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jesus and the Gospel in Africa collects writings by Kwame Bediako and is the best source for his insights into the Christ of present-day African history and the Jesus of African faith. Bediako shows how intimately bound together are such elements as the message of Jesus and the struggle to give birth to African democracy." --Book Jacket.
