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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Laurenti Magesa
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Catholic Church. Synod of Bishops. Special Assembly for Africa
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Giovanni Paolo II
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ISBN: 9788820988418
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Catholic Church. Synodus Episcoporum. Special Assembly for Africa
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Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Peter Acho Awoh
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956578215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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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.

Author: Maura Browne
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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From its announcement in 1989 until its convening in Rome in 1994 the African Synod of Bishops became a focus for hope and tension in the region where Catholicism is growing the most quickly. The African Synod is the first comprehensive treatment of this historic event. It provides an up-to-the-minute portrait of the African church, its needs for inculturation, its search for an African ecclesial expression, and its relation to Rome.

Author: Catholic Church. Synodus Episcoporum
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Category : Catholic Church
Languages : en
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Author: Catholic Church. Synodus Episcoporum
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Category : Catholic Church
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