TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Mark
TI  - The kingdom of God in Africa: a short history of African Christianity 
T2  - A BGC monograph
SN  - 9780801020964
AV  - BR1360 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - Baker Books
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
N1  - 1 (pages 307-316) and index; part 1. The Imperial Rule of God: Early African Christianity (100-600). 1. Wrestling with the Kingdom: Approaches to African Church History. 2. The Kingdom along the Nile: Christianity in Egypt. 3. The City of God: Christianity in North Africa. 4. Kings of Glory: Christianity in Ethiopia and Nubia to 640 --; part 2. The Clash of Kingdoms: Medieval African Christianity (600-1700). 5. The Kingdoms of Allah and Mungu: Islam and African Religion in the Middle Ages. 6. Crumbling Kingdoms: Nubian Collapse and Ethiopian Survival. 7. The Kingdoms of Christendom: The European Discovery of Africa, 1500-1700 --; part 3. The Reign of Christ: African Christianity in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 8. The Liberating Kingdom: The Crusade Against the Slave Trade. 9. Kingdom and Community in West Africa. 10. A Kingdom Divided: South African Christianity. 11. The Violent Kingdom: East African Christianity --; part 4. The Kingdom on Earth: African Christianity in the Twentieth Century. 12. Ambassadors of the Kingdom: The Missionary Factor in Colonial Africa. 13. Cities of Zion: Independent Christian Movements before 1960. 14. Kingdom of Earth: Christianity in Independent Africa. 15. The Presence of the Kingdom: Lessons from the African Story; 2
N2  - This survey of Africa's Christian centuries is organized around Augustine's vision of the City of God and H. Richard Niebuhr's conception of the kingdom of God in history. African Christianity, writes the author, has blended the sovereign rule of God, the redemptive reign of Christ, and the social emphases of the kingdom of justice
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