Themes in African church history
Subtitle: missionary motives, merits and mistakes
By: Anthony Brendell and Thorsten Prill
Contributors: Prill, Thorsten, author
Series: Namibian theological research papers -- volume 1; Namibian theological research papers -- volume 1
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2019
Place of publication: München]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9783346044174
Subjects: Missionaries; Appointment, call, and election; Protestant churches; Missions; History; Church history
Description: "The Protestant missionary movements have for some time come under severe criticism. Writing from a Namibian perspective, Brendell and Prill demonstrate that the overall picture painted by the critics is often harsh. Most Protestant missionaries were driven by compassion for people who needed to hear the Christian Gospel. Of course, that does not mean that they were faultless. Their zeal for the mission of the Church did not prevent missionaries from making serious mistakes. One of these mistakes was the practice of paternalism, as the example of the Rhenish Missionary Society shows." -- from backcover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Rhenish Missionary Society and the Formation of the Rhenish Church in Namibia; title: Protestant Missionaries and Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa; title: Bibliography; title: About the Authors.