The ‘Faithful Deacon' and the ‘Good Layman': The First Converts of the UMCA and Their Responses to Mission Christianity

The first African converts of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa were five freed slaves, who had been given to the mission by the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1864. Their stories provide a microcosm of varying responses to mission Christianity by both clerical and lay Christians. One convert,...

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Main Author: Ott, Alice T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Univ. Press [2018]
In: Studies in world christianity
Year: 2018, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-156
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDE Anglican Church
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B William G. Tozer
B Francis Mabruki
B Universities' Mission to Central Africa
B John Swedi
B Henry Morton Stanley
B Dr Edward Steere
B Robert Feruzi
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