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The Church in Africa 1450-1950 / Adrian Hastings.
Van Pelt Library BR1360 .H364 1994
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Van Pelt - Yarnall Collection BR1360 .H364 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hastings, Adrian.
- Series:
- Oxford history of the Christian Church
- The Oxford history of the Christian Church
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions.
- History.
- Church and state.
- Christians, Black.
- Africa--Church history.
- Africa.
- Church history.
- Christians, Black--Africa--History.
- Church and state--Africa.
- Missions--Africa--History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 706 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- 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. It is the latest volume in the highly successful Oxford History of the Christian Church series.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [621]-685) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198269218 :
- OCLC:
- 29877222
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