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A history of the church in Africa
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ISBN: 052158342X 1107113989 0511116667 1423762606 0511156227 0511304080 0511497377 1280161744 0511054033 9780521583428 9781423762607 9780511054037 9780511116667 9786610161744 6610161747 9780511497377 9781107113985 9781280161742 9780511156229 9780511304088 Year: 2000 Volume: 74 Publisher: [Cambridge]: Cambridge university press,

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The late Bengt Sundkler, missionary, bishop, and academic, pioneered the study of independent churches in Africa. In this magisterial work, he reviews the entire history of the development of Christianity in all regions of the continent. In contrast to the conventional focus on the missionary enterprise, Professor Sundkler places the African converts at the centre of the study. African Christians, typically drawn from the margins of society, reinterpreted the Christian message, proselytised, governed local congregations, and organised independent churches. Emphasising African initiatives in the process of Christianisation, he argues that its development was shaped by African kings and courts, the history of labour migration, and local experiences of colonisation. This long-awaited book will become the standard reference on African Christian churches.

The Cambridge history of christianity
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ISBN: 0521812399 9780521812443 9780521817752 9780521811064 0521811139 0521814561 0521815002 0521812445 0521817757 0521811066 9780521811620 052181605X 9780521812399 9780521814560 9780521815000 9780521816052 9780521811132 0521811627 9781139054133 9781107423633 9781139053952 9781107423701 9781139054126 9781107423695 9781139054836 9781107423619 9781139054225 9781107423640 9781139054089 9781107423671 9781139056021 9781107423664 9781139054843 9781107423688 9781139054850 9781107423749 1139054228 1316169200 1316171590 1139056026 Year: 2006 Volume: 1 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local and world level. The insights of many disciplines, including gender studies, codicology, archaeology and anthropology, are deployed to offer fresh interpretations which challenge the conventional truths concerning this formative period. Addressing eastern, Byzantine and western Christianity, it explores encounters between Christians and others, notably Jews, Muslims, and pagans; the institutional life of the church including law, reform and monasticism; the pastoral and sacramental contexts of worship, belief and morality; and finally its cultural and theological meanings, including heresy, saints' cults and the afterlife.

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27 <035> --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Grote handboeken. Compendia --- Church history --- Christianity and culture --- Enlightenment. --- History. --- Eastern churches --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Europe --- History of Europe --- Christian church history --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 500-1199 --- History of Asia --- anno 500-599 --- anno 1-499 --- Ancient history --- Eglise --- Histoire --- Eglises orientales --- Histoire religieuse --- Reformation --- Counter-Reformation --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Contre-Réforme --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Christelijke kerkgeschiedenis --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Église --- Moyen âge --- Églises orientales --- Christianisme --- 1500-1660 --- Origines --- 30-600 (Eglise primitive) --- 19e siècle --- 20e siècle --- 1660-1815 --- history of Christianity --- development of Christianity --- Christian theology --- Christian intellectualism --- Christian politics --- sociology of Christian Formation --- Christian identity --- Christian communities --- Christian practices --- Christian history up to 400 AD --- the Protestant Reformation --- Catholic Reform --- Latin Christendom --- schisms in Christianity --- world history from 1660 to 1815 --- church --- state --- society --- Christian life --- intellectual movements --- social movements --- science --- Enlightenment --- French Revolution --- 1789 --- de-Christianisation --- colonialism --- missionary work --- nineteenth century Christianity --- European Christendom --- expansion of Christianity worldwide --- Catholic traditions --- Protestant traditions --- Christianity and nationalism --- new voluntary forms of Christianity --- independant Christian Churches --- cultural impact of Christianity --- Moyen âge

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