عنوان

Four Thousand Forgotten Generations:

شماره

LA120799

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Four Thousand Forgotten Generations:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

The Longue Durée in African History Challenges Mission, Theology and Piety

نام نخستين پديدآور

Paul Jenkins

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

With a few notable exceptions the history of Christianity in the regions of Black Africa begins around 1800 or later. The bulk of missiological work on the continent naturally concentrates on the 10 generations in which evangelisation has taken place and churches have grown. But the human race has a history of 4-5,000 generations in Africa. Is it possible to build a bridge between the missiological concern with recent Christian history, and the long perspectives which the continent offers the general historian? The author essays a Christian approach to the millennia in which African populations, with little input from outside, have survived by the quality of their knowledge of, and thinking about, their environment - the ability humans always had to observe and to ratiocinate. He argues that over 4-5,000 generations humans in Africa have practised what we call science, interleaved with what we call religion. This view gives missiologists a basis for a positive approach to pre-Christian belief and ritual in Africa, but challenges us also to ask if Christian practice there has paid enough attention to traditional centres of intellectual articulation among its peoples. With a few notable exceptions the history of Christianity in the regions of Black Africa begins around 1800 or later. The bulk of missiological work on the continent naturally concentrates on the 10 generations in which evangelisation has taken place and churches have grown. But the human race has a history of 4-5,000 generations in Africa. Is it possible to build a bridge between the missiological concern with recent Christian history, and the long perspectives which the continent offers the general historian? The author essays a Christian approach to the millennia in which African populations, with little input from outside, have survived by the quality of their knowledge of, and thinking about, their environment - the ability humans always had to observe and to ratiocinate. He argues that over 4-5,000 generations humans in Africa have practised what we call science, interleaved with what we call religion. This view gives missiologists a basis for a positive approach to pre-Christian belief and ritual in Africa, but challenges us also to ask if Christian practice there has paid enough attention to traditional centres of intellectual articulation among its peoples.

تاريخ نشر

2005

توصيف ظاهري

249-266

عنوان

Mission Studies

شماره جلد

22/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1573-3831

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Paul Jenkins

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157338305774756531

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y