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Christianity in Africa arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD, and in the 21st century the majority of Africans are Christians. [1] Several African Christians influenced the early development of Christianity and shaped its doctrines, including Tertullian, Perpetua, Felicity, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Cyprian, Athanasius and Augustine of Hippo.
The aim of the Africa Bible Commentary is to relate the Bible to African realities of today. Along with commentary on the Bible, there are 70 articles on issues such as HIV/AIDs that are affecting African churches and individuals. [1] (See ACwiki for more details.) Tokunboh Adeyemo was the general editor.
The founder of the Apostolic Church in South Africa, Carl George Klibbe, was born on 24 December 1852 in Pomerania at the Baltic Sea and was a preacher in the Lutheran Church when he had contact with the Apostolic doctrine in a town named Schladen in Germany where he met Heinrich Niemeyer for the first time.
[24] "History", or specifically biblical history, in this context appears to mean a definitive and finalized framework of events and actions—comfortingly familiar shared facts—like an omniscient medieval chronicle, shorn of alternative accounts, [25] psychological interpretations, [26] or literary pretensions. But prominent scholars have ...
List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name Year Title Peak positions Album US Christ. [12] US Christ. AC [13] 2002 "Be All End All" — — The Life and Times Of Absolute Truth "Anxious Seat" — — 2004 "Blessed Be Your Name" 2: 2 The Answer to the Question "King" 22: 21 2005 "Maker Of All Things" 33: ...
Concordia: a collection of hymns and spiritual songs (1918) [330] Young People's Luther League Convention Song Book [331] [332] The Parish School Hymnal (1926) [333] [334] The Primary Hymn Book, Hymns and Songs for Little Children (1936) [335] United Lutheran Church in America. Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church with Hymnal (1917) [286]
The historian Herodotus used the appellation to denote those parts of Africa south of the Sahara that were then known within the Ecumene (habitable world). [4] The earliest mention of the term is found in the works of Homer, where it is used to refer to two people groups, one in Africa and one in the east from eastern Turkey to India. [5]
Afrikaner Calvinism (Afrikaans: Afrikaner Calvinisme) is a cultural and religious development among Afrikaners that combined elements of seventeenth-century Calvinist doctrine with a "chosen people" ideology based in the Bible.