While the Bible was produced in part in Mediterranean North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa has had a very different engagement with the Bible. This article analyses the reception of the Bible in Sub-Saharan Africa, recognising ...

A survey in 1957 initiated by the Lutheran Missionary, Helge Fosseus, confirmed that Africans were highly critical of the missionaries, describing them as betrayers supporting the politics of the white oppressors. ...

Oral history has been used as a valuable tool for the recording of the neglected history of the ordinary people. Since the 1980’s, oral historians in South Africa have engaged recording the histories of the black people, ...

The article reflects on key issues relating to Denis’ work as a church historian at the interface of theology, ecclesiastical and social history, and theological formation. The importance of the development of an ...

Canaan Banana argued for a true Christianity and theology in Africa in many of his published works. This article has sought to outline the ingredients of this true Christianity and theology showing how especially such ...

In what ways were the lives of 19th century South African indigenous men and women affected by their encounters with Western missions and their subsequent conversion to Christianity? The life stories of Zibokjane kaGudu ...

For decades research into the history of Christian social ethics in South Africa has illuminated responses within a broad spectrum of major denominations to public issues, but has thus far shed considerably less light ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, between one and two hundred British women at any one time were serving among South Africa’s black population as paid Anglican missionaries. From 1913, they joined together in ...