A Reading Guide to Christianity in Africa (See also )
Compiled by John Roxborogh
Dictionary of African Christian Biography
Harold W Turner microfiche collection, New Religious
Movements
Baeta, Christian G, ‘My pilgrimage in mission,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 12(4) Oct 1988, 165-168.
Curtin, P, ed., Africa and the West, University of Wisconsin, 1972.
Fiedler, Klaus. ‘Post-classical missions and churches in Africa - identity and challenge to missiological research,’ Missionalia 23(1) April 1995, 92-107.
Glasswell, M E and E W Fashole-Luke, New Testament Christianity for Africa and the world, SPCK, 1974.
Hassing, Per. ‘Looking at Catholic mission in Africa,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 3(4) Oct 1979, 157-158.
Hastings, Adrian. ‘My pilgrimage in mission,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 16(2) April 1992, 60-64.
Hastings, Adrian. A history of African Christianity (1950-1975), CUP, 1982.
Hastings, Adrian. African Catholicism. Essays in discovery, SCM, 1989.
Hildebrandt, Jonathan, History of the Church in Africa, Africa Christian Press, 1981.
Isichei, Elizabeth. A history of Christianity in Africa from antiquity to the present, Eerdmans, 1995.
Jenkins, Paul. ‘The roots of African Church History: some polemic thoughts,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 10(2) Apr 1986, 67-71.
Kalu, Ogbu U. African Church historiography: an ecumenical perspective, Evangelische Arbeitsstelle Oekumene Schweiz, Berne, 1988.
Kendall, E. The end of an era: Africa and the Missionary, SPCK, 1978.
Sanneh, Lamin. ‘The horizontal and the vertical in mission: an African perspective,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 74) Oct 1983, 165-171.
Sanneh, Lamin. ‘The Yogi and the Commissar: Christian missions and the African response,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 15(1) Jan 1991, 2-12.
Sanneh, Lamin. West African Christianity. The religious impact, Orbis, 1983.
Shorter, Aylward, The church in the African city, Orbis.
Thomas, Norman E. ‘Evangelization and Church Growth: the case of Africa,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 11(4) Oct 1987, 165-171.
Verstraelen-Gilhuis, Gerdien and Norman E Thomas, “Selected Annotated Bibliography on Missiology P. Africa” Missiology 17(4) October 1989, 491-494.
Walls, Andrew F, ‘The Anabaptists of Africa? The challenge of the African Independent Churches,’ Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research, 3(2) Apr 1979, 48-51.
Transformation, 11(2) Apr/Jun 1994;11(4) Oct/Dec 1994
Awoniyi, Henry. ‘Nigerian Christians - edged into the Sahara?’ Transformation 4(2) Apr/Jun 1987
Gitari, David. ‘Church and State in contemporary Africa,’ Transformation 5(2) Apr/Jun 1988.
Katoke, I K. ‘Christianity and culture: an African experience,’ Transformation 1(4) Oct/Dec 1984.
Kinoti, George. ‘African Christians and the future of Africa,’ Transformation 11(3) Jul/Set 1994, 24-32.
Tertullian (c160-c.225), Cyprian (c.200/210-258), Novatian, early Donatism, the place of Rome.
Baker, D. ed., Schism, heresy & religious protest, Studies in Church History vol.9, 1-63.
Chadwick, H. Early Church, 90-93, 118-120.
Ellis, I P. "In defence of North African Christianity," in Glasswell & Fashole-Luke, NT Christianity for African & the world, 157-165.
Frend, W H C. Saints and sinners, 94-117.
Frend, W H C. Town and country in the early Christian centuries, documents XVI & XVII, Variorum, 1980.
Gonzalez, Justo L. A history of Christian thought, 1, 249-252.
Greenslade, S L. Early Latin theology, Westminster, 1966.
Horner, Norman A. ‘Christianity in North Africa today,’ Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research, 4(2) Apr 1980, 83-88.
Jedin, ed., History of the Church, 1, 247-253, 355-360.
Lane, Christian thought, 22-27.
Lion Handbook, 83, 111f., 196-203.
Smith, M A. From Christ to Constantine, 97-107.
von Campenhausen, Hans. Fathers of the Latin Church, 4-60.
Clement of Alexandria (c.155-220), Origen (c.185-c.254)
Aziz S Atiya, A history of Eastern Christianity, Methuen, 1968, 11-145.
Christianity Today, June 17 1988, pp.25-40.
Pearson, B A and J E Goehring, eds., The roots of Egyptian Christianity, Fortress, 1986.
Roberts, C H. Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt, OUP, 1979.
Chadwick, Early Church, 94-115.
Chadwick, H ed. Alexandrian Christianity, SCM, 1954.
Chadwick, H. Origen Contra Celsum, CUP.
Foster, First Advance, 41-44, 147-9.
Frend, Saints and sinners, 74-93.
Grant, R M. "Early Alexandrian Christianity," document XXIV in Christian beginnings: Apocalypse to history, Variorum, 1983.
Jedin, History of the Church, 1, 229-240.
Koester, H. Introduction to the NT, 2, 219-225.
Kraft, H. Early Christian thinkers, USCL, 1964.
Pearson B A & J E Goehring, The roots of Egyptian Christianity, Fortress, 1986.
Petry, History of Christianity, 1, 23-27, 99-103.
Smith, From Christ to Constantine, 108-112.
Stevenson, New Eusebius, refs.
Trigg, J W. Origen, the bible and philosophy in the third century church, SCM, 1983.
von Campenhausen, Hans. Fathers of the Greek Church, 25-56.
Aziz S Atiya, A history of Eastern Christianity, Methuen, 1968, 146-166.
Shenk, Calvin E. ‘Church and State in Ethiopia: from monarchy to Marxism,’ Mission Studies XI-2 (22), 1994, 203-226.
Suttner, Ernst C. ‘Orthodoxy and Catholicism in Ethiopia. The challenge of inculturation,’ Missionalia 23(1) April 1995, 108-129.
Agbeti, J. West African Church History, Brill, 1986.
Barrett, David B., et al, eds. Kenya churches handbook. The development of Kenyan Christianity 1498-1973, Evangel Publishing House, Kenya, 1973.
Bühlmann, Walbert. The missions on trial, Orbis, 1979.
Clarke, P. West Africa and Christianity, 1986.
Cooksey, J J, and A McLeish, Religion and civilisation in West Africa, World Dominion Press, 1931.
Ghazali, Basri. A comparative study in religious tolerance in post-independence Malaysia and Nigeria with special reference to Christian-Muslim relations, PhD thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1988. [Not in New Zealand]
Glasswell, Mark E, and Edward W Fasholé-Luke, New Testament Christianity for Africa and the world, SPCK, 1974.
Hansen, H B. Mission, church and state in a colonial setting. Uganda 1890-1925, St Martins, New York, 1984.
Hastings, Adrian. African Catholicism. Essays in discovery, SCM, 1989.
Hastings, Adrian. A history of African Christianity (1950-1975), CUP, 1982.
Kailing, Joel B. “A new solution to the African Christian problem,” Missiology 22(4) Oct 1994, 489-506.
Kalu, Ogbu U. African Church historiography: an ecumenical perspective. Papers presented at a workshop on African Church History held at Nairobi, August 3-8, 1986, Evangelische Arbeitsstelle Oekumene Schweiz, Bern, 1988.
Kendall, Elliott. The end of an era. Africa and the missionary, SPCK, 1978.
Pirouet, L., ed., Christianity worldwide, SPCK TEF Study Guide 22, pp.126-187.
Ross, Andrew. John Philip (1775-1851). Missions, race and politics in South Africa, Aberdeen University Press, 1986.
Sanneh, Lamin. Translating the message. The missionary impact on culture, Orbis, 1990.
Sanneh, Lamin. West African Christianity. The religious impact, Orbis, 1983.
Sicard, Sigvard von. The Lutheran Church on the coast of Tanzania 1887-1914, Uppsala, 1970.
Verstraelen, F J. An African church in transition. From missionary dependence to mutuality in mission. A case-study on the Roman Catholic Church in Zambia, Interuniversity Institute for Missiology and Ecumenical Research, Leiden, 1975.
Walls, A F. "The Anabaptists of Africa? The challenge of African Independent Churches," Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research, 3(2), April 1979, pp.48-51.
Walls, Andrew F, ‘Black Europeans, white Africans: some missionary motives in west Africa,’ in Derek Baker, ed., Religious Motivation: Biographical and sociological problems for the Church Historian, Ecclesiastical History Society, Blackwell, Oxford, 1978, pp.339-348
Walls, Andrew F, ‘The legacy of Samuel Ajayi Crowther,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 16(1) Jan 1992, 15-21.
Ajayandele, E A. The missionary impact on modern Nigeria 1842-1914, Longman, 1966.
Ajayi, J. Christian missions in Nigeria 1841-1891. The making of a new elite, Longman, 1965.
Dzurgba, A. ‘A history of Christian missions in Nigeria,’ Asia Journal of Theology, April 1991.
Ojo, Matthews A. ‘The Charismatic Movement in Nigeria today,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 19(3) July 1995, 114-118.
Anderson, W B. The Church in East Africa 1840-1974, Dodoma, 1977.
Hansen, H B. Mission, church and state in a colonial setting. Uganda 1890-1925, St Martins, New York, 1984.
Oliver, R. The missionary factor in East Africa, Longmans, 1952.
Stanley, Brian. ‘The East African revival,’ Evangelical Review of Theology 2(2) 1978.
Barrett, D B et al, eds, Kenya Churches Handbook, Evangel, Nairobi, 1973.
Cell, J W, ed.. By Kenya possessed, University of Chicago, 1976.
Gration, J A. The relationship of the Africa Inland Mission and its National Church in Kenya between 1895 and 1971, New York, 1971.
Pirouet, M L. Black evangelists, 1978.
Taylor, J V. The growth of the church in Buganda, SCM, 1968.
Ross, Andrew. John Philip (1775-1851). Missions, race and politics in South Africa, Aberdeen University Press, 1986.
Smith, Nico. ‘My pilgrimage in mission,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 13(3) Jul 1989, 118-122.
Villa-Vicencio, Charles. ‘The covenant restructured: a shift in Afrikaner ideology,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 9(1) Jan 1985, 13-16.
‘African Theology,’ Black Theology,’ in S B Ferguson and D F Wright, New Dictionary of Theology, IVP, 1988.
Adelowo, E Ada. “A comparative look ... Yoruba oral tradition,” Asia Journal of Theology (1) October 1987, 334-354.
Adeyeho, Tokunboh. ‘Towards an evangelical African theology,’ Evangelical Review of Theology 7(1) Apr 1983 147-154.
Anderson, Allan. ‘African Pentecostalism and the Ancestor cult: confrontation or compromise?’ Missionalia 21(1) April 1993, 26-39.
Bediako, Kwame. ‘Biblical Christologies in the context of African Traditional Religions,’ in C Sugden and V Samuel, Sharing Jesus in the Two-Thirds World, Regnum, Oxford, 1983, 115-175.
Bediako, Kwame. ‘Jesus in African culture,’ Evangelical Review of Theology, 17(1), Jan 1993, 54-64.
Bediako, Kwame. ‘The roots of African theology,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 13(2) Apr 1989 58-65.
Bediako, Kwame. Theology and identity. The impact of culture upon Christian thought in the second century and in modern Africa, Regnum, Oxford, 1992.
Bowers, Paul. ‘Evangelical theology in Africa: Byang Kato’s legacy,’ Evangelical Review of Theology 5(1) April 1981, 35-39.
Bujo, Benezet, African theology in its social context, Orbis.
‘Communique of the Pan African Conference of Third World Theologians,’ Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research, 2(3) Jul 1978, 92-94.
Daïdanso, Ma Djongwé, ‘An African critique of African theology,’ Evangelical Review of Theology 7(1) April 1983, 63-72.
Daneel, M L. ‘African Christian theology and the challenge of earthkeeping,’ Neue Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, 47, 1991(2) 129-142; 1991(3), 225-246.
De la Haye, Sophie, Byang Kato: Ambassador for Christ, Africa Christian Press, Ghana, 1986.
Dickson, Kwesi A. ‘Development of African Theologies,’ Mission Studies 1(2) 1984, 53-61.
Gehman, Richard J. Doing African Theology. An Evangelical perspective, Evangel, Nairobi, 1987.
Gitari, David. ‘The claims of Jesus in the African context,’ Evangelical Review of Theology, 6(2) Oct 1982, International Review of Mission, January 1982.
Kato, Byang H. ‘Christianity as an African religion,’ Evangelical Review of Theology 4(1) Apr 1980, 31-39.
Kato, Byang H. ‘Black Theology and African Theology,’ Evangelical Review of Theology, 1(1) Oct 1977, 35-48.
Kato, Byang H. Theological Pitfalls in Africa, Evangelical Publishing House, Nairobi, 1975.
King, Fergus J. “Angels and Ancestors: A basis for Christology?” Mission Studies 11(1), 21, 1994, 10-26.
Kinney, John W. ‘The theology of John Mbiti: his sources, norms and method,’ Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research, 3(2) Apr 1979, 65-68. [And the comment by John Mbiti, p.68.]
Martey, Emmanuel. African theology. Inculturation and Liberation, Orbis, 1993.
Mbiti, John. The Bible and Theology in African Christianity, 1986.
Mbiti, John. ‘The biblical basis for present trends in African theology,’ Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research, 4(3) Jul 1980, 119-124.
Mbiti, John ‘Christianity and African culture,’ Evangelical Review of Theology, 3(2) Oct 1979 and response by Tite Tienou.
Mugabe, H J. ‘Christology in an African context,’ Review and Expositor 88(4) 1991, 343-355.
Musasiwa, Roy B. ‘The finality of Jesus in Africa,’ Evangelical Review of Theology, 17(1), Jan 1993, 65-69.
Muzorewa, Gwinyai Henry. An African Theology of Mission, Edwin Melen Press, 1991.
Nelson, F B. ‘New frontiers in African theology,’ Evangelical Review of Theology 14(3) July 1990 209-224.
O’Donovan, Wilber. Introduction to Biblical Christianity from an African Perspective, Nigeria Evangelical Fellowship, 1992.
Okorocha, Cyril. The meaning of religious conversion in Africa, Avebury, 1987.
Parratt, John ed. A reader in African theology, SPCK TEF Study Guide 23, 1987.
Pobee, John S. Toward an African theology, Abingdon, 1979.
Priest, Doug. Doing theology with the Maasai, William Carey Libary, 1990.
Taylor, J T V. Primal Vision, 146-163.
Tienou, Tite. ‘Indigenous African Christian theologies: the uphill road,’ International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 14(2) Apr 1990, 73-77
Tienou, Tite. ‘Biblical Foundations for African theology,’ Missiology 10(4) October 1982, 435-448.
Tienou, Tite. ‘Threats and dangers in the theological task in Africa,’ Evangelical Review of Theology, 5(1) April 1981, 40-47.
Turner, Harold W. "Interactions of Bible and cultures. Contrasting receptions - Africa and New Zealand," Stimulus 1(4), November 1993, pp.6-12.
Van Rheenen, Gailyn. ‘Cultural concepts of power in Biblical perspective,’ Missiology 21(1) January 1993, 41-53.
Muslim World 44, 1954, pp227-235; 57, 1967, pp11-18 (Egypt)
Berger, M. Islam in Egypt today. Social and political aspects of popular religion, CUP, 1970.
Shenk, Calvin E. ‘The demise of the church in North Africa and Nubia and its survival in Egypt and Ethiopia: a question of contextualisation?’ Missiology 21(2) April 1993, 131-154.
Solihin, S M. Copts and Muslims in Egypt: a study in harmony and hostility, Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 1991.
Journal of Religion in Africa
Microfiche, Niger, Benin
Deng, Francis M, The Dinka of the Sudan, New York, 1972.
Gbadamosi, T G O. The growth of Islam among the Yoruba 1841-1908, Humanities, 1978.
Hill, Richard, "Islam in the Sudan," in A J Arberry, ed., Religion in the Middle East, CUP, 1976.
King, Noel Q. Christian and Muslim in Africa, Harper and Row, 1971.
Lewis, I M. Islam in tropical Africa, Indiana University Press, 1980.
McKinney, Carol V. “Conversion to Christianity: A Bajju case study,” Missiology 22(2) April 1994, 147-166.
Nathamburi, Zablon. "Towards indigenization of Christianity in Africa: a missiological task," International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 13(3), July 1989.
Parrinder, G. Africa’s three religions, Sheldon, 1976.
Rasmussen, Lissi. Christian-Muslim relations in Africa, British Academic Press, 1993. [BP 172 RAS]
Sanneh, Lamin. West African Christianity. The religious impact, Orbis, 1983.
Trimingham, J S. Islam and West Africa, Clarendon, 1978.
Trimingham, J S. Islam in the Sudan, 1983.
Microfiche, Uganda
Anderson, W. B. Church in East Africa, 1840-1974, Central Tanganyika Press, Didoma.
Barrett, David B., et al, eds. Kenya churches handbook. The development of Kenyan Christianity 1498-1973, Evangel Publishing House, Kenya, 1973.
Trimingham, J S. Islam in the Sudan, Frank Cass, London, 1949, 1983.
Welbourn, F B., Religion and politics in Uganda 1952-1962, East Africa Publishing House, Nairobi, 1965.
Naude, J A. “South Africa: the role of a Muslim minority in a situation of change,” Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, 13(1) Jan 1992, 19-32.
Oosthuizen, G C. “Islam among the Zanaibaris of South Africa,” History of Religions, 31, 1992, pp.305-320.