02874cam a2200361Ia 4500 9168860 OSt 20161122020005.0 101226s2011 cm a b 000 0 eng d 9789956578214 9956578215 99946199806 (OCoLC)ocn694393416 (OCoLC)694393416 (NNC)9168860 BTCTA eng BTCTA YDXCP NUI BWX LOA OCLCQ DTM f-cm--- BV3625.C29 A9 2011 Awoh, Peter Acho. 20647 The dynamics and contradictions of evangelisation in Africa : an essay on the Kom experience / Peter Acho Awoh. Dynamics and contradictions of evangelization in Africa Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub., c2011. xxi, 184 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-184). Introduction -- Missionary theology -- Motives and methods -- Present day challenges. This 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 lethargy that has in some places crippled the mission itself. In retrospect, one can begin to wonder why Africans became Christians. What reasons motivated the early adherents to cling to this foreign religion? Were there some internal deficiencies in African traditional religions, which the Africans hoped to remedy by joining the new religion? Or was it just part of the wholesale flirting with whatever was foreign and perceived to be modern? What baits were used by the missionaries to entice Africans? Christianity posed a danger to many of the time-honoured answers to African problems. These were the 'values' Africans converting to Christianity were expected to abandon. Why have Christians continually returned to their abandoned roots in time of crisis? This moving, well argued, richly documented and empirically substantiated study concludes by cautioning against the stubborn drive at radical conversion to Christianity with scant regard to the imperatives of enculturation. Kom (African people) Religion. 20648 Evangelistic work Cameroon History. 20649 Cameroon Church history. 20650 lcc BK 5 20120126 c sl13 MPS 56484 56458 0 0 lcc 0 0 GEN CPL CPL GEN 2013-02-07 TBN 26.95 5 2 BV 3625.C29 A9 2011 R59510Y3232 2019-09-26 00:00:00 2016-11-21 1 2013-02-07 BK