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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 9, no. 2/3
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2024)[This double issue of the Journal honors two giants of African Christianity who have died in the past year, Marthinus “Inus” Daneel (1937-June 29, 2024) and Allison Mary Howell (1951-2023). Zimbabwean by birth, Daneel was ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 9, no. 1
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2024)[African Christians from the DACB collection are showcased here as well. We also included a short section on the Gospel writer John Mark later in the issue. This excerpt from Oden’s 2011 book the African Memory of Mark: ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 8, no. 4
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2023)[This issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography highlights some of the entries in the DACB that profile participants in the twentieth-century ecumenical movement in southern Africa. The overwhelming impression ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 8, no. 3
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2023)[Throughout African Christian history, catechists and evangelists have carried out the lions’ share of the work of mission. Catechists were generally served in Roman Catholic and Anglican churches as lay (non ordained) ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 8, no. 2
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2023)[This issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography, introduces readers to the concept of uMuntu theology— “a reflective life-dancing with God in the cosmos and through time … a celebrative reflection on our being ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 8, no. 1
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2023)[This issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography explores the witness of African Christians in situations of revival and survival. African Christian history is replete with instances of these two extremes of ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 7, no. 4
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2022)The many emerging aspects of the phenomenon of Pentecostalism continue to invite new research. In this issue we offer full reviews of several important studies of Pentecostalism in Africa. Zimbabwean researcher Allan ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 7, no. 2/3
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2022)In 2019, a group of Anabaptist-Mennonite historians from around the world gathered for a symposium under the auspices of the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (ISGA) in Goshen, USA. Unanimously, they affirmed ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 7, no. 1
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2022-01)A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: Focus: Archbishop Desmond Tutu (South ... -
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 6, no. 4
(Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2021-10)A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: Tributes to Andrew Walls and Benedict ...