Church in Africa, 1450-1950

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Preface

Contents

A Note on Names

List of Abbreviations

PART I. 1450-1780: A MEDIEVAL ENVIRONMENT

1. The Ethiopian Church in the Age of Zara Ya'iqob

i: Introduction: The Council of Dabra Mitmaq

ii: Coptic and Aksumite Origins

iii: Ethiopia's Hebraic Character

iv: Monasticism and Monarchy in the Fourteenth Century

v: The 'House of Ewostatewos' and Sabbath Observance

vi: The Policies of Zara Ya'iqob

vii: The Age of Baida Maryam

2. Africa in 1500 and its Christian Past

i: Society, States, Statelessness, and Religion

ii: African Islam. Iii: The Christian Past of North Africa and Survival in Egypt

iv: Nubia

3. The Kongo, Warri, Mutapa, and the Portuguese

The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

i: Portugal Overseas

ii: Kongo and its Initial Evangelization

iii: Benin and Mutapa

iv: Kongolese Catholicism under Afonso I and his Immediate Successors

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

v: The Diocese of São Salvador and the Jesuits

vi: The Mission of the Capuchins

vii: The Battle of Ambuila, Kimpa Vita, and the Antonian Movement

viii: The Kongo Church in the Eighteenth Century. Ix: Angola, Sierra Leone, Warri, and Mutapa

x: The Slave Trade and its Implications

xi: An Evaluation

4. Riches to Rags: Ethiopia 1500-1800

i: The Church of Lebna Dengel

ii: The Jihad of Gran

iii: Galawdewos, the Jesuits, and Enbaqom

iv: Paez and Susenyos

v: Mendes and Fasiladas

vi: The Eighteenth Century

PART II. 1780-1890: FROM THE ANTI-SLAVERY TO TOTAL SUBJUGATION

5. Equiano to Ntsikana: From the 1780s to the 1820s

i: London, Africa, and Protestantism

ii: West African Protestant Beginnings and the Foundation of Freetown

iii: The Advance of Islam. Iv: Kongo Christianity under Garcia V

v: South Africa: Genadendal, Bethelsdorp, and Kuruman

vi: The Mission Village: A Discussion

vii: Khoi Leadership and Ntsikana

6. The Lion Revived: Ethiopia in the Nineteenth Century

i: The Age of the Princes

ii: Tewodros 1855-68

iii: Yohannes IV and Menelik

7. The Victorian Missionary

The Evolution of a Movement

i: Where Protestant Mission had Arrived by the 1840s

ii: The Catholic Revival

iii: David Livingstone and his Influence

iv: Verona Fathers and White Fathers

v: The State of Missionary Complexity by 1880. Style, Priorities, and Mind

vi: Missionary Characteristics and Life-Style

vii: Missionary Teaching

viii: The Uses of Medicine

ix: Language and Translation

x: Christianity, Civilization, and Commerce

xi: The Three Selves and the Pursuit of Adaptation

xii: What Missionaries Thought of Africa

8. Kings, Marriage, Ancestors, and God

i: Monarchies and Christianization

ii: Rain

iii: Social Structure: Marriage, Circumcision, and Secret Societies

iv: Ancestors, Deities, and God

9. Christian Life in the Age of Bishop Crowther

i: 'Black Europeans'