The dynamics and contradictions of evangelisation in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : an essay on the Kom Christian experience / / Peter Acho Awoh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789857103321
• Autore: Awoh Peter Acho
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mankon, Bamenda [Cameroon], : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-00495-X; 9786613004956; 9956-579-98-X; 9956-579-96-3; 9956-578-82-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: WC266
• Soggetti: Evangelistic work - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-184).
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgement; Preface; Foreword; Chapter One: Introduction; Background to German Annexation; Early Missionary Manoeuvres in Cameroon; Evangelisation and Early History; Kom Early History; German Colonisation and Christianity; Evangelisation Under the British; The Sacred Heart Missionaries in Kom; African Christianity in Retrospect; Colonial and Missionary Motives; Catholicism and African Traditional Religion; Philosophical and Cultural Consequences of Conversion to Christianity; Evangelisation and Conversion Models; Christian Villages and Early Converts to Christianity The Triple Heritage and Shattered Dreams; Chapter Two: Missionary Theology; Introduction; Apostolic and Patristic Times; Magisterial Teaching 13th Century to the 15th Century; Age of Exploration, Discovery and Colonisation; Vatican II Era; Polemics and Controversies Since Vatican II; Chapter Three: Motives and Methods; Introduction; Missionary Methods; Apostolic and Patristic Era; Mediaval Age; The Age of Exploration and Colonisation; Motives of Conversion to Christianity; Introduction; Apostolic and Patristic Era; The Reformation; Age of Exploration and Colonisation The Kom Christian Experience of Evangelisation; The Post War Era; Traditional Authorities and Christianity in Conflict; Further Expansion of Christianity in Kom; Indigenous Missionary Initiatives; Missionary Tactics and Manoeuvres; Chapter Four: Present Day Challenges; Introduction; Subtle anti Christian Literature and the Phenomenon of Reversion; Calls and Importance of Inculturation; The Cultural Dialogue in the Patristic Era and the Middle Ages; The Sixteenth-Century Evangelization of the American Indian; Inculturation in the Far East; Criteria of Inculturation Christological Criterion; Ecclesiological Criterion; Anthropological Criterion; African Attempts at Inculturation; Possible Areas of Inculturation; Traditional and Christian Funeral Rites; Traditional Funeral Rites; Traditional Femine Rites; African and Christian Religious Underpinnings of Funeral Rites and Points of Divergence and Convergence; African Forms of Healing; Introduction; Iking I Wayn; Origin and Purpose; Initiation and Purpose; African Spiritual World, Sickness, Healing and the Teaching of the Church; The Sacramental Rites; Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and Demonology The Church's Faith in Healing Today; Fertility Rites; Fertility Rites in the Ancient Near East; Traditional Days of Obligations; Origin and Purpose; Christian Days of Obligation; Origin and Purpose; Traditional Concept and Practice of Justice; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: This book critically discusses missionary Christianity and colonization in Africa as twin enterprises with a common ambition. While the colonialist set out to invest capital and reap profit, the missionary desire was to tend and turn African souls from damnation. It was this desire that drove the missionaries into the interior, propelled by the belief that no land was too remote to escape their attention and vigilance. It equally kept missionary zeal buoyant. The clarification of the concept of salvation within the Roman Catholic Church during the Vatican II Council set in motion the current l