Conflicted Power in Malawian Christianity : Essays Missionary and Evangelical from Malawi.

Cover -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings (1995/1998) -- Introduction -- Historical and theological background -- The number of sacraments -- The crucial role of the bride price -- Changing patterns of African marriage: "Marriage by eloping -- The crucial role of the church wedding [-feast] -- The [non]-sacrament of marriage as a means of religious stratification -- A scarcity of Christian marriages? -- Christian values lost -- A need for a new Process of inculturation -- Do something quickly! -- Abolish church weddings! -- 2. The Moralities of Condom Use: Theological Considerations (2006) -- How good are condoms? -- Moral Principles -- Condoms within marriage -- Condoms outside marriage -- 3. Compulsory HIV Testing. A Christian Imperative (2007) -- Introduction -- The right not to know -- The morality of compulsory testing -- Weigh the values! -- Compulsory testing -- Compulsory testing and treatment -- What the church can do -- If the state refuses -- Experiences -- The way forward -- 4. The Cross and the Resurrection (2010) -- 5. The "Smaller" Churches and Big Government (1995) -- The Three-fold Face of Christianity in Africa -- General perceptions -- Limitations to post-classical participation in politics -- Post-classical political involvement through the Christian Council of Malawi -- The Baptist Convention of Malawi -- The Seventh-day Adventist Church -- Other Post-classical Churches -- Owning and Disowning a (Post-classical) Hero -- Conclusion -- 6. Even in the Church the Exercise of Power is Accountable to God (1996) -- State Power - Church Power - Counter Power -- The church and its members -- A plurality of churches -- Religion as power relations -- Christianity and other religions -- The Research Methods Employed.

Theology talked versus theology acted -- Sacraments are to organize power -- Sacraments in Theology Talked -- Sacraments in Theology Acted: the churches' side -- Sacraments in Theology Acted: the peoples' side -- Burial is no sacrament, wedding is -- Sacraments are for achievers: baptism -- The sacrament of communion is more difficult to achieve (and to retain) -- The church's option for the rich -- Ordination is powerful -- The power of non-compliance -- The power of choice -- Sacramental power is decreasing -- Christian pluralism: a check on power -- The Joseph Booth factor -- New missions after the end of missions -- Change is the power of the powerless -- There are so many churches -- The religious landscape in Malawi is changing -- Revival as Counter Power -- The Nkhonde Revival -- The Revival in Zambia -- The 1970s Revival -- The Charismatic Churches -- The Born Again controversy -- Liberalization and the churches -- 7. Power at the Receiving End: The Jehovah's Witnesses' Experience in One Party Malawi (1996) -- The Refusal to Constitute Power -- The Jehovah's Witnesses -- The Jehovah's Witnesses in Malawi -- One nation, one party, buy your card! -- Peaks and Valleys of Persecution: 1964, 1967, 1972 -- Lands of Refuge -- Return to new persecution -- The Character of the Persecution -- The Role of State Organs -- Responsibility -- 8. Christian Missions and Western Colonialism: Soulmates or Antagonists? (1998) -- Assumptions galore! -- Some facts that need interpretation -- Conflicts of soulmates or cooperation of antagonists? -- A question of methodology -- Myths so easy, yet they must die -- The missionaries were children of their times... -- ... as we are of ours -- 9. Gender Equality in the New Testament: The Case of St Paul (2003) -- Introduction -- Romans 16: How Paul appreciated women's ministry -- Evangelical discoveries.

Paul's "practical theology" texts about women's role -- Alternative interpretations: Evangelical type -- Possible meaning for Malawi -- 10. The Process of Religious Diversification in Malawi: A Reflection on Method and a First Attempt at a Synthesis (2004) -- Introduction -- Conversion and Diversification -- Parallel diversity -- Religious diversification in Islam -- Christian diversification -- Comity -- The Catholic alternative -- The African Independency alternative -- Atchona churches -- New missions after the end of missions -- Evangelical ascendancy -- No ascendancy of African Independent Churches -- Diversification and conversion -- Evaluation -- Conclusion -- 11. Islamization in Malawi - Perceptions and Reality (2006) -- The Beginnings of Islamization of Malawi -- British rule and increased Islamization -- Stagnation of Islamization -- Islamization and education -- Malawi's independence -- The Islamic Revival -- The period of democratization -- The first democratic elections -- Malawi under a Muslim president -- Christian - Muslim relations -- 12. Faith Missions: 125 Years (1991) -- The theological and missiological inheritance of the Faith Missions -- Current Evangelical reception of the Faith Mission heritage -- 13. Aspects of the Early History of the Bible School Movement (1992) -- East London Training Institute: The first "bible school -- Other British bible schools/missionary training institutes -- Origin of the Bible School Movement: Holiness Missionary Training -- The bible school movement in America -- The Bible School as an American institution -- Bible school identity -- 14. Shifts in Eschatology - Shifts in Missiology (2001) -- Missions and Eschatology -- Amillennialism and the lack of missionary vision -- Postmillennialism and the Origin of the Protestant Missionary Movement.

The Christian Brethren: A Non-Church Movement with a New Eschatology -- The Revival of 1859/1873: Holiness, Missions and Premillennialism -- Ever new revivals -- Evangelical - Ecumenical -- Anti-missionary evangelical ecclesiologies -- Eschatology, Missiology and Worldview -- 15. The Post-Classical Missions and Churches in Africa - Identity and Challenge to Missiological Research (1995) -- Adrian Hastings and the Threefold Face of Christianity in Africa -- How to Sort out Protestant Pluralism in Africa? -- A Historical Typology of Missions and Churches (in Africa) -- An Attempted Evaluation -- Identity -- The Challenge to Missiological Research -- 16. "A Revival Disregarded and Disliked" or What do Seventh-day Adventists, Churches of Christ, Jehovah's Witnesses and the New Apostolic Church have in Common? (2008) -- Writing (Church) History -- Revival sequence 1517 and beyond -- 17. The Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements in Malawi in Cultural Perspective (1999) -- The issues -- Background: My understanding of revival history -- The Pentecostal Movement in Malawi: Historical Aspects -- The Apostolic Faith Mission -- The Assemblies of God -- Numbers -- The Charismatic Movement in Malawi -- The Charismatic Movement in Malawi: Historical Aspects -- Charismatic steps to a new church -- The interdenominational stage -- The fellowship stage -- Ministries -- Charismatic Churches -- A church split or split off -- What is happening? -- Non-religious interpretations -- Religious interpretation -- Cultural and sociological aspects -- Urban and middle class -- Deeply African -- African in culture? -- African Independent? -- Apolitical? -- 18. Africa's Evangelical Turn (2005) -- In the early centuries -- The great missionary expansion -- The Evangelical shift in Malawi -- And in all of Africa?.

19. A Community of Teaching and Learning, Research and Publishing (2007) -- 20. Selected Dictionary Entries and Book Reviews (2000) -- 1. Ernst Schrupp -- 2. Bruno Gutmann -- 3. Warneck, Gustav (1834-1910) -- 4. Karl Wilhelm Kumm and Lucy Kumm (Guinness) -- 5. Apolo Kivebulaya, the Apostle to the Pygmies (c. 1864 -1933) -- 6. The Encounter between Christian and Traditional African Spiritualities in Malawi: The Search for a Contextual Lomwe Christian Spirituality -- 7. T. Jack Thompson, Christianity in Northern Malawi. Donald Fraser's Missionary Methods and Ngoni Culture. Leiden/NewYork/Köln: Brill 1995, 292 -- 8. Peter Haenger, Sklaverei und Sklavenemanzipation an der Goldküste. Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis von sozialen Abhängigkeitsbeziehungen in Westafrika -- 9. Todd M. Johnson and Kenneth R. Ross, Atlas of Global Christianity -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.

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