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СКАЧАТЬ has been Pentecostalized; that is, it is the sort of Christianity that Africans think will benefit them. This new Christian experience in Africa evolved through African ingenuity in the appropriation of the Evangelical Pentecostal Christianity, which was tied to Western, mostly American Pentecostal/Charismatic spirituality. This modern Christianity has replaced the missionary Christianity and that of the early African-initiated churches, yet it is still adorned with the colors of the initial missionary strand. How the Africans can effectively and attractively manage these various colors is the task of African theologians and missiologists.

      22. See Asamoah-Gyadu, “Theological Education.”

      23. Barrett quoted in Asamoah-Gyadu, “Growth and Trends,” 67.

      24. CIA, “Africa: Egypt.” Note that in 1974 Operation World placed the number at 8 percent (Johnstone et al., Operation World, 233).

      25. Denis, “Christianity in Southern Africa”; Agbeti, West Africa Church History, 3.

      26. Falk, Growth of the Church in Africa, 118.

      27. Olwa, “Christianity in Eastern Africa”; Hasting, Church in Africa.

      28. Gerrish, Prince of the Church, 47.

      29. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, 108.

      30. For instance, Orr records that in 1860, in Edinburgh, the Carrubber’s Close Mission ejected an Atheist Club from their premises; they described the house of prostitutes as “a fortress of the Devil” (Orr, Second Great Awakening in Great Britain, 74).

      31. Fiedler, Story of Faith Mission, 113.

      32. Cox, Fire from Heaven, 14.

      33. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, 571–85, 640, 655.

      34. Price, “Missionary Struggle with Complexity,” 101

      35. Ogbu, “Third Response,” 3.

      36. For discussion on the prophetic and how it has been reinvented into the contemporary prophetic practices in Africa, see Asamoah-Gyadu, “From Every Nation Under Heaven,” xxx.

      37. Anderson, Bazalwane, 7; Asamoah-Gyadu, “Renewal within African Christianity,” 22.

      38. Asamoah-Gyadu, “Introduction into the Typology of African Christianity,” 63.

      39. Turner, Church of the Lord; Parrinder, Religion in an African City; Welbourn and Ogot, Place to Feel at Home.

      40. Asamoah-Gyadu, “Renewal within African Christianity,” 133.

      41. Asamoah-Gyadu, “Growth and Trends,” 70.

      42. Onyinah, “African Christianity.”

      43. Asamoah-Gyadu, “You Shall Receive Power,” 45–66.

      44. Onyinah, “African Christianity,” 305–14.

      45. Ojo, “Church in the African State.”

      46. For reading on the Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International, see Asamoah-Gyadu, Sighs and Signs of the Spirit.

      47. Asamoah-Gyadu, African Charismatics, 63.

      48. Anderson, African Reformation; Asamoah-Gyadu, “Growth and Trends.”

      49. Asamoah-Gyadu, Sighs and Signs of the Spirit, 64

      50. Kalu, “Third Response,” 18.

      51. Irvine, From Witchcraft to Christ; Brown, He Came to Set the Captive Free; Prepare for War; Prince, Blessings or Cursing; From Cursing to Blessing; They Shall Expel Demons; Basham, Can a Christian Have a Demon?

      52. Kraft, Defeating the Dark Angels; Christianity with Power; Wagner, Warfare Prayer [1991]; Warfare Prayer [1992]; Engaging the Enemy; Confronting the Powers.

      53. Onyinah, “Contemporary ‘Witch-Demonology.’”

      54. Onyinah, Pentecostal Exorcism.

      55. Anim, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” 122.

      56. Quayesi-Amakye, “Prophetism in Ghana’s New Prophetic Movement”; Anim, “Prosperity Gospel and the Primal Imagination”; Hackett, “Charismatic/Pentecostal Appropriation.”

      57. Some claim even frequently to raise the cripple, open the eyes of the blind and open the ears of the deaf, release the mouth of the dumb, and even raise the dead. Some in the attempt have duped the rich and poor, and as a result are placed in prison. Some of these are trending on social media.

      58. Anim, “Prosperity Gospel and the Primal Imagination,” 30. See СКАЧАТЬ