The Transformation of African Christianity
Author | : Sunday Jide Komolafe |
Publisher | : Langham Publishing |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781907713613 |
ISBN-13 | : 1907713611 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The explosion of the church in Nigeria is phenomenal, with a forward momentum that is as remarkable as the missionary optimism of the first century Church. The history reveals a tightly woven narrative of the process of beginnings, growth, and change. The Transformation of African Christianity is a systematic ecclesiological reflection on the extent to which the understanding and practice of ‘church’ have changed during one and a half centuries of Christianity in Nigeria. This provides pastors and practitioners with an interpretive framework for a contextual yet biblical way of doing church as Nigeria moves into the future. It will also give the theorist a missiological and theological compass to guide the work of theorizing and provide symmetry of understanding and interpretation in the ongoing appraisal of non-Western and global Christianity.