Christianity, the papacy, and mission in Africa / Richard Gray ; edited with an introduction by Lamin Sanneh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Richard, 1929-2005.

Contributor:

Sanneh, Lamin O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

History.

Africa--Church history.

Africa.

Church history.

Catholic Church--Africa--History.

Missions--Africa.

Missions.

Physical Description:

v, 197 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2012]

Summary:

Richard Gray was a pioneer in the study of African history. In his last years he worked on a comprehensive study of the papacy and Africa. Originally he assumed that the critical initiatives in the implantation of Christianity in Africa came from within Catholic Europe or its missionaries. He soon discovered, however, that the initiatives came from African Christians: from Ethiopia, from Kongo, from appeals to Rome by African Catholics, and finally from slaves of African origin from the New World who were protesting against the appalling discrepancy between Christian principles and the practice of slave traders and owners. With Gray's final work left unfinished, Lamin Sanneh has assembled these published essays. The result is an enduring contribution to the study of Africa, mission, and World Christianity. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The African Origins of the Missio Antiqua 27

2 A Kongo Princess, the Kongo Ambassadors, and the Papacy 48

3 Ingoli, the Collector of Portugal, the "Gran Gusto" of Urban VIII, and the Atlantic Slave Trade 64

4 The Papacy and Africa in the Seventeenth Century 73

5 Come Vero Prencipe Catolico: The Capuchins and the Rulers of Soyo in the Late Seventeenth Century 94

6 Christian Traces and a Franciscan Mission in the Central Sudan, 1700-1711 116

7 The Catholic Church and National States in Western Europe during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries from a Perspective of Africa 131

8 The Southern Sudan 141

9 Christianity, Colonialism, and Communications in Sub-Saharan Africa 153

10 Popular Theologies in Africa: A Report on a Workshop on Small Christian Communities in Southern Africa 164

11 Bengt Sundkler's African Encounters 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-191).

ISBN:

9781570759864

1570759863

OCLC:

786161581