This book offers an alternative reading of the relationship between an American mission and an African church in colonial South Africa. The author argues that mission and church were partners in this relationship from the beginning and both were transformed by this experience.

Vols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Black Theology, Slavery and Contemporary Christianity explores the legacy of slavery in Black theological terms. Challenging the dominant approaches to the history and legacy of slavery in the British Empire, the contributors show that although the 1807 act abolished the slave trade, it did not end racism, notions of White supremacy, or the demonization of Blackness, Black people and Africa. This interdisciplinary study draws on biblical studies, history, missiology and Black theological reflection, exploring the strengths and limitations of faith as the framework for abolitionist rhetoric and action. This Black theological approach to the phenomenon of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery draws on contributions from Africa, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.

Excerpt from The Autobiography of the Reverend Lewis Grout With an Introduction by the Rev. Luther M. Keneston Some months since, a ring of my door bell brought me face to face with a man as black as the night, but withal a man of remarkable grace and dignity, and evidently of superior intelligence. He gave his name as John Dube, and presently relieved my mental confusion by saying, "My father knew Lewis Grout." The circumstance suggested the substance of the following resolutions, unanimously passed by the Windham Association of Congregational Ministers, relative to the subject of the following autobiography: Resolutions in Reference to Rev. Lewis Grout. "Seldom, perhaps, has a man lived to see three generations of men brought to Christ through his own influence. Rev. Lewis Grout (born at Newfane, Vermont, January 28,1815, died in Brattleboro, Vermont, March 12, 1905, ) was a missionary in South Africa from 1849 to 1862, and in his lifetime Christian natives and their children and their children's children rose up to call him blessed. "We recognized in Mr. Grout a devout Christian, a scholar, and a man of affairs. He was a great reader and a prolific writer, to the last. His Zulu grammar, published in 1859, and revised in 1893, was among his greatest contributions to the literature of the world. We reverently acknowledge the good hand of God, in giving him so many years of life and the full possession of all his faculties, enabling him to rejoice in the fruits of his labors." The writer of this introduction has no difficulty in associating this circumstance with the teaching of Jesus, recorded in John 12:25. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.