At the world Mission conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1910, Africa was not represented. Afiica was not part of the Christendom and was thus not a key player in Christian missions. However, there had been major sustained missionary activities in Sub-Saharan Africa nearly a century earlier. Why did these activities not result in making Africa (at least) a minor player in world Christianity? W...

The issue is whether Christianity, of its nature, would seek to prevent a justifiable breach of confidentiality or could endorse it, under certain circumstances, as the act which is fundamentally more loving or more truthful. The individualistic nature of Western Christianity is noted. The Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is used to show Christian support for dynamic rather than literal ...

Among the "Great Religions" of the world may be discovered repetition and similarity, as well as, variations and significant differences. This similarity becomes clear when it is understood that of the five great religions-Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-a reduction to two may be made historically. Hinduism and Judaism may be considered the genesis of the other three: Hinduism ...

sity Church, Oxford. James Clarke & Co. 1949. 204 pp. 8s. 6d. Dr. Lee has attempted (as others have done before him) to effect an accommodation between Freudian theory and Christian doctrine. The task is formidable enough to daunt all but the most sanguine apologist ; and it would be as idle to pretend that Dr. Lee succeeds, as to deny that much of what he has written ought to be read, by Chris...

When Christianity came to Australia, with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, it came as the religion of the Europeans. After the new penal colony had survived the crises of the first few years, the British gradually extended their control over the whole continent. Thus they established in this country the dominance of European culture. In fact they were determined that this ‘new’ country w...