The history of missions in Africa WT-SST-HMA
Substantive content: in the history of the mission in Africa, three stages can be distinguished: the first five centuries of Christianity in North Africa, Egypt and Ethiopia, the period between the 16th and 18th centuries and the 19th and 20th centuries – a period of missionary expansion.
1. Africa past and present – introduction
2. The origins of Christianity in Egypt and North Africa.
3. Christianity in Nubia and Aksum.
4. Discovering Africa through Europe between 1415 and 1787.
5. Missions in Congo and Angola
6. Conquest of Africa through Europe (1787-1919)
7. Missions in North Africa.
8. Missions in West Africa.
9. Missions in Central Africa.
10. Missions in South Africa.
11. Missions in East Africa.
12. Missions during the colonial period (1920-1959).
13. Christian life (conversion, catechumenate, Sacraments, Scriptures)
14. .Christian life (institutions, laity, Christian families)
15. The Challenges of the Church in An Independent Africa (1960-2005)
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Bibliography
Bäeta C. G., Christianity in Tropical Africa, London 1968.
Groves C. P., The Planting of Christianity in Africa. London 1949-1960 (4 tomy).
Hastings A., Kościół i misje w Afryce, Warszawa 1971.
Mulders A., Missionsgeschichte, Regensburg 1960.
Różański J., Inkulturacja Kościoła wśród ludów Środkowego Sudanu, Poznań 2004.
Różański J., Szuppe P. (red.), Ewangelia między tradycją i współczesnością, Warszawa 2003.
Sundkler B., Steed C., A History of the Chuch in Africa, Cambridge 2001.
Zapłata F., Rodzimy charakter Kościoła w Afryce i na Madagaskarze, Płock 1980.
Zimoń H. (red.), Kultury i religie Afryki a ewangelizacja, Lublin 1995.
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