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Reexamines the first twenty years of the East African revival movement in Uganda, 1935-1955, arguing that through the movement African Christians articulated and developed a unique spiritual lifestyle.
From the 1930s the East African Revival influenced Christian expression in East Central Africa and around the globe. This book analyses influences upon the movement and changes wrought by it in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo, highlighting its impact on spirituality, political discourse and culture. A variety of scholarly approaches to a complex and changing phenomenon are juxtaposed with the narration of personal stories of testimony, vital to spirituality and expression of the revival, which give a sense of the dynamism of the movement. Those yet unacquainted with the revival will find a helpful introduction to its history. Those more familiar with the movement will discover new perspectives on its influence.
In the mid-1930s a remarkable movement of God was experienced in the African countries of Rwanda and Uganda spreading to Burundi, Keny and Tanzania. This was Revival in the sense in which Evangelical Christians understand the term.That revival was like an earthquake with its epicentre in north Rwanda and south-east Uganda. Its shock waves reached all the countries of East Africa and beyond. The dramatic earthquake like manifestations ceased. The bush fire of that Revival did not. It has continued in Africa, Europe, USA and elsewhere to this day.
The active agents in the multiethnic, multicultural East African Revival are African leaders who forge a new, distinctly African Christian spirituality that precipitates the moral and spiritual transformation of countless individuals throughout the region.
“What must I do to be saved?” That question, raised in the book of Acts by the Philippian jailer, is a question for the ages. Yet what, even, does it mean to be saved? Is salvation for this life or the next? Is it purely spiritual or does it have physical and material implications? Can salvation be lost? Do we determine who will be saved or does God? What role does Christ play in salvation? Such are the seemingly unending questions soteriology strives to answer. In this eighth volume from the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, African theologians articulate their understanding of salvation – and its widespread implications for life and practice – in conversation with Scripture and the rich diversity of an African cultural context. Salvation is examined from historical, philosophical, and theological lenses, and scholars address topics as wide-ranging as conversion, ethnicity, fertility, poverty, prosperity, the Trinity, exclusivism, African Pentecostalism, rural community, eschatology, wholeness, and atonement. It is a powerful exploration of the holistic nature of salvation as articulated in Scripture and understood by the African church.
The book attempts to analyse the challenges facing the East Africa Revival Movement (EARM). It proceeds from the EARM in Rwanda, then Uganda, later Kenya and Njukiini Parish, in particular, where it lays more emphasis on. In attempting to tackle these challenges, the book demonstrates, eventually, that the revivalists' concerns in our contemporary world can be surmounted. While appreciating the critical role of revivalists in the growth of the church, throughout the history of Christianity, the book cautions on the danger of pushing the quest for 'rebirth' too far - as both wheat and tares belong to God. In other words, the fear of schism brought about by radical revivalists' positions need to be treated as a serious concern. The book is a must read for historians, church planters, students of theology and general readership as it helps one to appreciate the strength and weaknesses of revivalism today.
Renewal movement within Evangelical churches in East Africa during the late 1920s and 1930s. The revival contributed to the significant growth of the church in East Africa in the 1940s through the 1970s.