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African Church History: Some Recent Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

A. F. Walls
A. F. Walls
Affiliation:
Head of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen
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Extract

By far the greatest proportion of the time and energy that is expended on the study of church history is devoted to the areas where the Church has, for practical purposes, died out, or where it is demonstrably declining. The history of that more considerable part of the Christian world which is still expanding, is the preserve of a tiny minority of specialists.

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Review Article
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 161 - 169
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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References

page 161 note 1 D. B. Barrett, ‘A.D. 2000: 350 million Christians in Africa’, International Review of Mission (1970) 39–54.

page 162 note 1 R. Oliver, How Christian is Africa? 1956, 8.

page 163 note 1 M. Gelfand, Gubulawayo and beyond.

page 163 note 1 Stanley Shaloff, Reform in Leopold's Congo.

page 165 note 1 Gordon MacKay Haliburton, The Prophet Harris.

page 166 note 1 David B. Barrett, Schism and renewal in Africa.

page 166 note 2 H. W. Turner, History of an African Independent Church.

page 166 note 3 Welbourn, F. B. and Ogot, B. A., A Place to Feel at Home: a study of two independent churches, London 1967Google Scholar.

page 167 note 1 Schism and Renewed, 278.

page 167 note 2 Schism and Renewal, 154–8. A debate about the thesis takes place between Barrett and R. C. Mitchell in Journal of Religion in Africa, (1970), 2ff. See also J. Fabian, ‘The atomization of charisma’, Journal of Religion in Africa, (1971), 1ff.

page 168 note 1 Sundkler, B. G. M., The Christian Ministry in Africa, London 1960, 25–31Google Scholar.

page 168 note 2 Haliburton, op. cit., 5.

page 169 note 1 Gordon Hewitt, The Problems of Success.

page 169 note 2 Ibid., 91.

page 169 note 3 Groves, C. P., The Planting of Christianity in Africa, London, 4 vols., 1946–1954Google Scholar.