African Hospitality from a Missiological Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783844300062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 184 str.

Julius Gathogo

Opis

African Hospitality From a Missiological Perspective: Aiding Church and Societal Growth, explores the contribution of African Hospitality towards church growth in particular, and societal growth in general. It attributes the fast spread of Christianity in Africa to the generosity that was displayed by Africans to the early European missionaries in the 19th and 20th centuries. That is, they offered land and other resources, even though their hospitality was at times, misused and/or abused. It also attributes the hopelessness in Africa, as evidenced by massive poverty, bad governance, starvation on a mass scale, for the failure to uphold hospitality strictly, as in line with the ideal African heritage and Biblical traditions on hospitality. It challenges the church to take a more active role in religio-social issues in order to help Africa to overcome her miseries. At the end of the book the author is deeply convinced that there is great hope for the African church and society in general.

O autorze

GATHOGO, JULIUSDr. Julius Gathogo,is a prolific writer and lecturer at KenyattaUniversity. He is also the author of six other books. That is,Simplified Sociology For Beginners, Simplified Psychology ForBeginners. Others include: The Pangs of Birth in AfricanChristianity, Liberation and Reconstruction in Africa, Christ'sHospitality and African Hospitality.