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Table of Contents
Figures and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
The Africa’s Hope Discovery Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Background
1 Introduction to Church History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 The Time Had Fully Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3 African Christian Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Early Christianity: A.D. 30–1500
4 The Gospel Comes to Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5 The Nile Corridor Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
6 Triumph and Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Middle Ages to 1900
7 The Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
8 The Gospel and New Beginnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
9 Nineteenth-Century Challenges and Progress . . . . . . . . . . . 149
The Great Advance
10 Evangelical Missions and African Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
11 The Church Returns to the Upper Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
12 The Twentieth Century and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Appendix A: Pomponius’ Map of Africa: A.D. 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Appendix B: European Colonial Powers in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Appendix C: Modern Political Map of Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
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