Encounters Between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789004347144
Subjects: Jesuits; Catholic church, relations, protestant churches; Protestant churches, relations, catholic church; Africa, religion
Description: Protestants entering Africa in the nineteenth century sought to learn from earlier Jesuit presence in Ethiopia and southern Africa. The nineteenth century was itself a century of missionary scramble for Africa during which the Jesuits encountered their Protestant counterparts as both sought to evangelize the African native. 'Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa', edited by Robert Alexander Maryks and Festo Mkenda, S.J., presents critical reflections on the nature of those encounters in southern Africa and in Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Fernando Po. Though largely marked by mutual suspicion and outright competition, the encounters also reveal personal appreciations and support across denominational boundaries and thus manifest salient lessons for ecumenical encounters even in our own time.