The Christianity Movement

The missionary movement in Christian History was written by Andrew F. Wall. He went to the West Africa and taught church history and trained them for the ministry in Sierra Leone. This book is the amalgamation of three movements, and the book has three parts. In the first part the author describes about a reflection on the nature of the Christian faith, from the point of view of its historical transmission. In part two, we can study about the Christian faith transmission process of the Africa and the third part is the about of missionary movement from the West as a model of what was happened to both partners the west and Africa as the transmission of faith in Africa. He became “historian of religion” and his emphasis was Christianity. He mentions that throughout Christian history till his written of this book most of the new Christians were converted from the “primal religions”. It means there are very rare people convert from Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam. He questions about what the primal religion of …show more content…
He describes century by century, In 325 CE, Christianity was moved from Jews to Mediterranean and the main language was Greek. From that shifted to westward, Great Britain. In 1980, the Christianity shifted to southwards and Africa is also one of the continents of most Christian living. The author divided the phase of Christian history into six phases. Each phase of Christian history had shown the transmission of Christianity as it had entered another culture. Andrew Walls describes that there is no “Christian culture or Christian civilization” like other religions e.g. Islamic culture and Islamic traditions. Therefore, according to him, Christian faith is translatability faith. The scripture is opened to translation, and Christian faith is penetrating and entering into Africa and the pacific and parts of Asia. In addition, the Christian faith is immensely translatable, and people can feel at