LEADER 05182nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910960238203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-00495-X 010 $a9786613004956 010 $a9956-579-98-X 010 $a9956-579-96-3 010 $a9956-578-82-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079556 035 $a(EBL)1135038 035 $a(OCoLC)830166256 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000672248 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11446528 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000672248 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10633493 035 $a(PQKB)10257575 035 $a(OCoLC)777401172 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22069 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1135038 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448540 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300495 035 $a(PPN)198686706 035 $a(FRCYB88825229)88825229 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88825229 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1135038 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079556 100 $a20101226d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe dynamics and contradictions of evangelisation in Africa $ean essay on the Kom Christian experience /$fPeter Acho Awoh 210 $aMankon, Bamenda [Cameroon] $cLangaa Research & Pub. CIG$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (210 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9956-578-21-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-184). 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aChristian 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 327 $aAge 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 327 $aCriteria 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 327 $aRite 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 330 $aThis 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 606 $aEvangelistic work$zAfrica 615 0$aEvangelistic work 676 $aWC266 700 $aAwoh$b Peter Acho$01795987 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960238203321 996 $aThe dynamics and contradictions of evangelisation in Africa$94337528 997 $aUNINA