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ISBN10: 0198263996, ISBN13: 9780198263999, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. "I can merely admire his courage in tackling so complex and difficult a subject; he should succeed in stimulating a fresh generation of research. this well-written, intelligent and lively study will greatly stimulate anyone fortunate enough to read it." Christianity provided the constitutive identity of historic Ethiopia. From the sixteenth century, and increasingly from the nineteenth, it entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasingnumber of other African peoples. In the course of the twentieth century, African Christians have become a major part of the world Church, and arguably modern African history as a whole is notintelligible without its powerful Christian element. Yet despite the great advance in African historiography over the last forty years, this is the first major volume to consider the historical development and character of the Christian Church in Africa as a whole, linking together Ehtiopia Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerousm 'Independent' churches of modern times. The book focuses throughout on the role of coversion, the shaping of Church life and its relationship totraditional values, and the impact of political power. Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comprable development of Islam in Africa. `well-written, intelligent and lively.will ...

ISBN10: 0198263996, ISBN13: 9780198263999, [publisher: OUP Oxford] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Covering five centuries--from the rise of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 15th century and the early Portuguese missionaries right through to the Church and its key role in Africa today--this major new volume is the first complete history of the Christian Church in Africa. Written by a leading authority on Church history who has spent many years in Africa, it looks at all aspects of Christianity in Africa, including its relationship to traditional values and customs, politics, and the comparable rise of Islam in Africa during the period.
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Oxford, England OUP Oxford 1996 Revised ed. Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 720 p. Oxford History of the Christian Church. Intended for a juvenile audience.

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