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Making Disciples in Africa: Engaging Syncretism in the African Church through Philosophical Analysis of Worldviews is unavailable, but you can change that!

With two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa professing to be Christian, it should be a concern to all Christians that the biblical worldview has had little impact on the shaping of contemporary African culture. In this book Jack Chalk analyzes the belief systems of the worldviews that are based on Christianity and African Tradition Religion. The analysis, conclusion, and recommendations are presented...

Because their religion defines who they are, to change religions, for an African, means to give up their identity and the support and security that is embodied in it. That is why missionaries of other religions find it so difficult to make converts. To whole-heartedly accept a new religion means ceasing to be African, and in the words of Mbiti above, ‘amounts to a self-excommunication from the entire life of society.’ Because of the social cost of accepting a new religion to the individual African,
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