Melanesia And Its Churches
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Melanesia And Its Churches
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Author : Franco Zocca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Melanesia And Its Churches written by Franco Zocca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Christianity categories.
What is immediately striking about this book is the breadth of its coverage. Its aim is "to present the current situation of the Melanesian Christians and to trace these situations back to their roots, both historical and cultural" (p. 1). In eight chapters the author addresses geography and population, traditional cultures and religions, European colonization, evangelization (in two chapters), movements, emerging independence, and current statistical data of the churches across Melanesia (Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, East and West New Guinea).
The Founding Of The Roman Catholic Church In Melanesia And Micronesia 1850 1875
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Author : Ralph M. Wiltgen
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2008-01-01
The Founding Of The Roman Catholic Church In Melanesia And Micronesia 1850 1875 written by Ralph M. Wiltgen and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Religion categories.
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850 to 1875 is the result of Father Ralph Wiltgen's years of archival work in Rome and at the headquarters of religious orders who worked in Micronesia and Melanesia. It follows his first historical book on the subject, The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania: 1825 to 1850, but narrows the focus. The first book dealt with the whole of Oceania and emphasized developments in Polynesia. This book concentrates on Melanesia and Micronesia from 1850 to 1875, the period immediately before the work of large numbers of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Marists, and Divine Word Missionaries assumed great momentum in the period between 1875 and 1914. Micronesia is a huge area of the world, made up of numerous culturally and politically distinct groups of atolls ranging over about 1,400 miles from the northwest to the southeast. Its peoples speak scores of mutually unintelligible though related languages on such island groups as the Marshalls, the Gilberts, Nauru, and Kiribati. Far more heavily populated is Melanesia, another huge area of the Pacific where as many as one thousand distinct languages are spoken in an arc of islands extending from just below the equator in a boomerang shape from today's Indonesian controlled Papua and independent Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea in the northwest all the way along the Solomon Island chain to 25° south latitude to the southeast. In this book, Wiltgen shows himself the undisputed master of the archives of the Propaganda Fide, the Vatican's chief mission agency and the religious orders that provided missionaries, all of which is supplemented by his attention to the lives of key people of the period. He shows the Propaganda now prodding missionary orders to take on the difficult work of evangelizing these areas and on other occasions struggling to keep up with and understand fast-moving events and the colorful characters--both ecclesiastical and among colonial administrators, rogue sea captains, and indigenous leaders. Wiltgen lets the contemporary records speak for themselves, though one can imagine his arched brow and mischievous grin as he selects exactly the right quote to describe now an act of missionary heroism and now an act of self-promotion. It is a masterful book, making available the early history of one of Catholicism's greatest missionary successes, helping the reader understand both the idealism of the vision and the way in which concrete events and people affected the outcome.
Church Of Melanesia
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Author : Church of the Province of Melanesia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Church Of Melanesia written by Church of the Province of Melanesia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
The Manual Of The Church Of Melanesia
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Author : Church of the Province of Melanesia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Manual Of The Church Of Melanesia written by Church of the Province of Melanesia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
The Church Of Melanesia 1849 1999
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Author : Allan K. Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Church Of Melanesia 1849 1999 written by Allan K. Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Church history categories.
The Constitution Of The Church Of The Province Of Melanesia
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Author : Church of the Province of Melanesia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Constitution Of The Church Of The Province Of Melanesia written by Church of the Province of Melanesia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
God S Gentlemen
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Author : David Hilliard
language : en
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Release Date : 2013-05
God S Gentlemen written by David Hilliard and has been published by University of Queensland Press(Australia) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with History categories.
David Hilliard's God's Gentlemen, originally published in 1978, remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission. Starting with its New Zealand beginnings and its Norfolk Island years (1867-1920), the work follows the Mission's shift of headquarters to the Solomon Islands and on until the beginning of the Second World War. The Mission, which grew out of the personal vision of the first Church of England Bishop of New Zealand, George Selwyn, formally defined its field of work as 'the Islands of Melanesia' although its activities were confined almo.
God S Gentlemen
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Author : David Hilliard
language : en
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
God S Gentlemen written by David Hilliard and has been published by University of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with History categories.
David Hilliard's God's Gentlemen, originally published in 1978, remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission. Starting with its New Zealand beginnings and its Norfolk Island years (1867-1920), the work follows the Mission's shift of headquarters to the Solomon Islands and on until the beginning of the Second World War. The Mission, which grew out of the personal vision of the first Church of England Bishop of New Zealand, George Selwyn, formally defined its field of work as 'the Islands of Melanesia' although its activities were confined almost entirely to the island groups that now make up Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. The Diocese of Melanesia was a fully constituent diocese of the Anglican Church of New Zealand from its formation in 1861 until the creation of the autonomous Church of the Province of Melanesia in 1975. Based on a wide range of sources, God's Gentleman is the inner history of the slow growth of an important and genuinely Melanesian church.
Traditional Religion In Melanesia
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Author : Theo Aerts
language : en
Publisher: University of Papua New Guinea Press
Release Date : 1998
Traditional Religion In Melanesia written by Theo Aerts and has been published by University of Papua New Guinea Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Melanesia categories.
There are various modern methods of an audience-centered reading of the Scriptures. One of them is an anthropology-inspired approach which assumes that people from these parts of the world come to the Bible with quite a different set of presuppositions, grounded in their own age-old traditions. This kind of approach goes purposely away from the well-established kind of reading which is based upon past Jewish history, ancient near-Eastern customs and archaeology, Semitic philology and so on. But without denying the value of these essentially sound segments of learning, is it really necessary that Melanesians should first plunge into Western academia in order to hear God's word? Or is it no longer true that "Greeks" must not first become "Jews" before they can become Christians? The articles gathered in Traditional Religion in Melanesia, and its companion volume Christianity in Melanesia contribute to the goal just described. They make clear that religion as such was not something that was completely new for "the pagans of the past," and that as a rule, too, they were rather selective in accepting the Christian message. This accounts for some misunderstandings, but also for some very positive ways of accepting Christianity.
Christianity In Melanesia
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Author : Theo Aerts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Christianity In Melanesia written by Theo Aerts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Christian art and symbolism categories.
There are various modern methods of an audience-centered reading of the Scriptures. One of them is an anthropology-inspired approach which assumes that people from these parts of the world come to the Bible with quite a different set of presuppositions, grounded in their own age-old traditions. This kind of approach goes purposely away from the well-established kind of reading which is based upon past Jewish history, ancient near-Eastern customs and archaeology, Semitic philology and so on. But without denying the value of these essentially sound segments of learning, is it really necessary that Melanesians should first plunge into Western academia in order to hear God's word? Or is it no longer true that "Greeks" must not first become "Jews" before they can become Christians? The articles gathered in Traditional Religion in Melanesia, and its companion volume Christianity in Melanesia contribute to the goal just described. They make clear that religion as such was not something that was completely new for "the pagans of the past," and that as a rule, too, they were rather selective in accepting the Christian message. This accounts for some misunderstandings, but also for some very positive ways of accepting Christianity.