Missionaries to yourselves African catechists today

Author(s): Ayward Shorter (editor); Eugene Kataza (editor)

📚Print Book 1972

London : Geoffrey Chapman Publishers, 1972.

Summary:

This book is about the African catechist. It is the fruit of three years' historical and sociological research, carried out against a background of open discussion on the future shape of the ministry and a background of catechetical renewal. There has also been a growing Africanization of the Church, although this has been slowed up by the vocation crisis and by the expansion of Church structures which are straining human resources more and more. Our research project has had a direct and indirect, positive influence on all these processes. (From the Introduction, ix)

Author(s)

Aylward Shorter (1932-2023) (editor); Eugene Kataza (editor)

Notes

various contributors

Series

Physical description:

x, 212 pages : tables; maps; 21.5 cm

Contents:

I. History of the catechist in Eastern Africa (Francis Nolan, M.Afr) II. Portrait of the catechist (Eugene Kataza) III. Developing roles of the catechist (Aylward Shorter, M.Afr.) IV. The training of catechists and its financial implications (Bernard Joinet, M.Afr.) V. The ministry of the catechist considered theologically (Adrian Hastings) VI. Catechists and the future of the Christian ministry (Marienus Rooyackers, M.Afr.) VII. A case history from Uganda (Marienus Rooyackers, M.Afr.) VIII. Three case histories from Tanzania (Bernard Joinet, M.Afr.) IX. Sisters as catechists (Sister Maria Pouliot) Appendices I. Excerpts from the decrees on the missionary activity of the Church. II. Excerpts from AMECEA study conference record. III. Tentative resolutions at SECAM meeting IV. Catechists in Rwanda and Burundi.

Subjects:

The Missionaries of Africa Historical Research Project subject headings

Catechists - research - xix-xxth centuries

Catechists - history - portrait - roles - training - ministry

Catechists - Africa - Kenya - Uganda - Tanzania - Malawi - Zambia

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Catechists—Africa, East

Bibliography

includes note on contributors and index.

ISBN:

0 225 65862 3

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