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It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.
Hudson Taylor (1832 1905) war nicht nur Gründer der bekannten China Inland Mission, sondern er rief, ohne es zu beabsichtien, eine ganz neue Missionsbewegung ins Leben, die neue Kräfe für die Weltmission gewann. Weil er nie um Geld bat, sondern sich im Glauben auf Got verließ, nannte man diese Missionen 'Glaubensmissionen.' Im deutschsprachigen Raum werden sie of als 'Evangelikale Missionen' bezeichnet, im englischsprachigen Raum als 'Interdenominational Missionen.' Sie stellen heute weltweit einen beträchtlichen Anteil der evangelischen Missionare. Ihre Rolle als eigenständiger Zweig der weltweiten Missionsbewegung wird of unterschätzt. Klaus Fiedler stellt die ersten Jahrzehnte der Geschichte der Glaubensmissionen dar und ihr Kirchenverständnis, wie interdenominationlle Missionen denominationlle Kirchen gründen, die heute weit über zehn Millionen Mitglieder haben. Dieses Buch ist eine revidierte und erweiterte Neuausgabe von 'Ganz auf Vertrauen. Geschichte und Kirchenverständnis der Glaubensmissionen' (Brunnen Verlag, 1992) und immer noch das Standardwerk zum Thema.
In this book Klaus Fiedler offers a candid critique of religious faith healing claims - a critique that extents to the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Campaign (VMMCC). The book reveals the lack of substantive evidence to back such healing claims and the contradiction between the VMMCC claims and the consequences of those claims in sexual health and practice.
The volume constitutes Klaus Fiedler's crowning contribution to scholarship. Essays in the first half of the book focus on Malawian Christianity and how contrasting Powers, Gospel and Secular, engage each other, creating social, political and cultural conflict in the process. In the second half, Fiedler examines general missiological themes. These essays provide a broader missiological background, offering a theoretical framework necessary for appreciating the essays in the first half. He concludes with a chapter that reviews selected seminal books on themes under study. Throughout the volume Fiedler applies the 'restorationist revival theory' he constructed in The Story of Faith Missions, an earlier 1994 work putting emphasis on non classical missions and churches, not systematically covered in earlier scholarship. This volume, the first of its kind on Malawian Christianity, will long remain an indispensable text for those interested in Missiology and Malawian Christianity.
The Christian faith is comprehensive and diverse, so the question, what the centre is, can be asked. Different answers have been given, to which this book adds another. The venture of the Christian faith is missions, following Kenneth Scott Latourette's thesis that the Holy Spirit moves forward the history of the church by bringing in ever new revivals, which produce ever new organisations. Therefore missions are not the children of the churches, but of the revivals, and Africa was not evangalised by the European and American churches, but by the Europeans and American mission societies.