Conflicted power in Malawian Christianity : essays missionary and evangelical from Malawi / Klaus Fiedler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiedler, Klaus, author.

Series:

Mzuni books ; Number 16.

Mzuni Books ; Number 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Theory.

Missions.

Christianity--Malawi.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Place of Publication:

Luwinga, Malawi : Mzuni Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume constitutes Klaus Fiedler's crowning contribution to scholarship. Essays in the first half of the book focus on Malawian Christianity and how contrasting Powers, Gospel and Secular, engage each other, creating social, political and cultural conflict in the process. In the second half, Fiedler examines general missiological themes. These essays provide a broader missiological background, offering a theoretical framework necessary for appreciating the essays in the first half. He concludes with a chapter that reviews selected seminal books on themes under study. Throughout the volume Fiedler applies the "restorationist revival theory" he constructed in The Story of Faith Missions, an earlier 1994 work putting emphasis on non classical missions and churches, not systematically covered in earlier scholarship. This volume, the first of its kind on Malawian Christianity, will long remain an indispensable text for those interested in Missiology and Malawian Christianity.

Contents:

For the sake of Christian marriage, abolish church weddings

The moralities of condom use: theological considerations

Compulsory HIV testing: a Christian imperative

The cross and the resurrection

The "smaller" churches and big government

Even in church the exercise of power is accountable to God

Power at the receiving end: the Jehovah's Witnesses' experience in one party Malawi

Christian missions and Western colonialism: soulmates or antagonists?

Gender equality in the New Testament: the case of St Paul

The process of religious diversification in Malawi: a reflection on method and a first attempt at a synthesis

Islamization in Malawi: perceptions and reality

Faith missions: 125 years

Aspects of the early history of the Bible School Movement

Shifts in eschatology: shifts in missiology

The post-classical missions and churches in Africa: identity and challenge to missiological research

"A revival disregarded and disliked"

The charismatic and pentecostal movements in Malawi in cultural perspective

Africa's evangelical turn

A community of teaching/learning, research and publishing

Dictionary entries and book reviews.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 8, 2016).

ISBN:

99960-45-08-0

OCLC:

938324139