The Troubled Knot: Tying Church Discipline to ‘Christian Marriage’ in African Contexts
This article examines the historic discourse on public discipline around sexuality in the African context and its ascendancy, through missionary emphasis on Christian marriage, across multiple denominations and cultural locations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foreign missionaries and Af...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0022046919000666 2024-03-03T08:47:01+00:00 The Troubled Knot: Tying Church Discipline to ‘Christian Marriage’ in African Contexts SNOW, JENNIFER C. 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046919000666 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022046919000666 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms The Journal of Ecclesiastical History volume 71, issue 1, page 135-153 ISSN 0022-0469 1469-7637 Religious studies History journal-article 2019 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046919000666 2024-02-08T08:29:57Z This article examines the historic discourse on public discipline around sexuality in the African context and its ascendancy, through missionary emphasis on Christian marriage, across multiple denominations and cultural locations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foreign missionaries and African leaders struggled with abuses of discipline and were aware of the inequity of discipline globally. Public discipline was extremely uncommon at this time in North Atlantic contexts, but became a foundational aspect of African Christian life. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Cambridge University Press The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 71 1 135 153 |
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This article examines the historic discourse on public discipline around sexuality in the African context and its ascendancy, through missionary emphasis on Christian marriage, across multiple denominations and cultural locations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foreign missionaries and African leaders struggled with abuses of discipline and were aware of the inequity of discipline globally. Public discipline was extremely uncommon at this time in North Atlantic contexts, but became a foundational aspect of African Christian life. |
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