Andrew C. Ross

Blantyre Mission and the Making of Modern Malawi

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When a thousand leading members of the Nyasaland African Congress were detained under the emergency regulations imposed by the Federation government in 1959, the Presbyterian chaplains who ministered to them at Kanchedza Camp in Limbe were the late Rev Jonathan Sangaya and Rev Andrew C. Ross. They soon discovered that around 700 of the thousand men were members of the Church of Central African Presbyterian. This raised a question in the mind of the recently arrived Scottish missionary: how may we account historically for the fact that so many national leaders were Presbyterians? The quest to answer that question led him to produce the thoro… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-99960-60-56-4
EAN: 9789996060564
Produktnummer: 27546068
Verlag: Luviri Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 284 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 440 g
Auflage: Second Edition
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 440

Über den Autor

Andrew C. Ross served with the Blantyre Synod of the CCAP in Malawi from 1958 until 1965 when he was deported from the country owing to his close association with the rebel ministers Masauko Chipembere and Yatuta Chisiza. On returning to Edinburgh he completed his Ph.D. and began his distinguished career as Lecturer in the History of Missions in the Faculty of Divinity. From 1978 to 1984 Dr Ross served as Principal of New College and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.