TY - BOOK AU - Shaw,Mark AU - Gitau,Wanjiru M. TI - The kingdom of God in Africa: a history of African Christianity SN - 9781783688111 U1 - 276 Shaw PY - 2020///] CY - Carlisle, Cumbria PB - Langham Global Library KW - Evangelicalism KW - Africa KW - History KW - Christianity KW - Church history N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and index; Introduction: wrestling with the kingdom: approaching the story of African Christianity -- The kingdom along the Nile: Christianity in Egypt to AD 640 -- The city of God: Christianity in North Africa to AD 640 -- Kings of glory: Christianity in Ethiopia and Nubia to AD 600 -- The kingdoms of Allah and Mungu: Islam and African religion in the Middle Ages -- Crumbling kingdoms: Nubian collapse and Ethiopian survival -- The kingdoms of Christendom: the European discovery of Africa, 1500-1700 -- The liberating kingdom: the crusade against the slave trade -- Kingdom and community in West Africa -- A kingdom divided: South African Christianity -- The violent kingdom: East African Christianity -- Ambassadors of the kingdom: the missionary factor in colonial Africa -- Cities of Zion: independent Christian movements before 1960 -- Christianity in post-independence Africa ER -