African Catholicism: Essays in Discovery

by Adrian Hastings

Twenty or more years have passed since the Second Vatican Council made African Catholicism seem a feasible, bewitching mixture of Gospel freedom, mediaeval en rootedness and Third World contemporaneity. Now it has entered a 'dark tunnel', a church of silence working out its future in isolation, poverty and faith. In these essays Adrian Hastings analyses aspects of African Catholicism today, the prophetic role of the christian church in Africa, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033400019X
• ISBN13: 9780334000198
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"