Evangelicalism in Africa - what it is and what it does.
Evangelicalism in Africa - what it is and what it does.
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非洲的福音派——它是什么以及它做什么。
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2016
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A. Balcomb
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福音主义在非洲大陆正在经历惊人的增长。然而，福音派的定义仍然是由西方的理解现象占主导地位。非洲对福音主义的理解以及非洲的例子需要在讨论这个问题时发挥作用。非洲的福音主义应该更多地被理解为它为信徒做了什么，而不是它的理论公式。它在非洲次大陆的成功可能是由于它在现代和前现代世界观的界面上进行交易。它满足了非洲条件所产生的需要，并为现代条件所要求的东西开辟了道路。它与非洲的精神以及现代的唯物主义和个人主义产生共鸣，并为其追随者提供现代世界所要求的代理感，但在非洲的宇宙中是不透明和复杂的。它以各种不同的方式，积极和消极地转化为非洲社会的社会、经济和政治结构。
Evangelicalism is experiencing spectacular growth on the African continent. However definitions of Evangelicalism continue to be dominated by a western understanding of the phenomenon. An African understanding of Evangelicalism as well as African examples need to feature in discussions of the topic. Evangelicalism in Africa should be understood more by what it does for its adherents than by its doctrinal formulations. Its success on the sub-continent of Africa could be due to the fact that it transacts at the interface of a modern and pre-modern worldview. It meets the needs that an African condition creates and opens the way to what a modern condition demands. It resonates both with the spirituality of Africa and the materialism and individualism of modernity and provides its adherents the sense of agency demanded in the modern world but which is opaque and complex in an African universe. It translates in various and diverse ways, both positively and negatively, into the social, economic, and political structures of African society.