The Transformation of African Christianity: Development and Change in the Nigerian Church

by Sunday Jide Komolafe

Publisher:

Langham

, 2013

Overview

The explosion of the church in Nigeria is phenomenal, with a forward momentum that is as remarkable as the missionary optimism of the first century church. The history reveals a tightly woven narrative of the process of beginnings, growth, and change. The Transformation of African Christianity is a systematic ecclesiological reflection on the extent to which the understanding and practice of ‘church’ have changed during one and a half centuries of Christianity in Nigeria. This provides pastors and practitioners with an interpretive framework for a contextual yet biblical way of doing church as Nigeria moves into the future. It will also give the theorist a missiological and theological compass to guide the work of theorizing and provide symmetry of understanding and interpretation in the ongoing appraisal of non-Western and global Christianity.

Product Details

• Title: The Transformation of African Christianity: Development and Change in the Nigerian Church
• Author: Sunday Jide Komolafe
• Publisher: Langham
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Nigeria › Church history; Church growth › Nigeria; Mission of the church › Nigeria
• ISBNs: 9781907713590, 9781907713606, 9781907713613, 190771359X, 1907713603, 1907713611
• Resource ID: LLS:TRNSFRMTNCHRSTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:30:11Z

About Sunday Jide Komolafe

Sunday Jide Komolafe is founder and executive director of the Center for Christian Renewal and Advancement in Lagos, Nigeria. He is also associate professor of ministry and theology at the Africa Centre for Theological Studies. He received his Phd in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. Some of the works he has authored include Christ, Church, and the Cosmos: A Missiological Reading of Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians and The Changing Face of Christianity: Revisiting African Creativity). Sunday specializes in the field of practical theology.