The Kingdom of God in Africa: A Short History of African Christianity

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Baker Books, 1996 - Religion - 328 pages
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.

Contents

Preface
7
The Kingdom along the Nile
21
The City of God
41
Kings of Glory
61
Medieval African Christianity 6001700
73
Crumbling Kingdoms
91
The Kingdoms of Christendom
107
African Christianity
125
A Kingdom Divided
159
The Violent Kingdom
181
African Christianity
203
Kingdom on Earth
259
The Presence of the Kingdom
291
Maps
299
Bibliography of Works Cited
307
Index
317

Kingdom and Community in West Africa
139
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