God's Interpreters - The Making of an American Mission and an African Church

This book offers an alternative reading of the relationship between an American mission and an African church in colonial South Africa. The author argues that mission and church were partners in this relationship from the beginning and both were transformed by this experience.

About the author

Les Switzer, Ph.D., M.Div, has had careers as a print journalist, a university academic, a hospice chaplain and a part-time minister mainly in South Africa and the U.S. He retired as executive director of the Foundation for Contemporary Theology-a venue for discussion and debate on contemporary issues and concerns in theology and religious studies in general-in Houston, Texas. He has published eight books and thirty-one book chapters, articles and essays in journalism and media studies, development studies, cultural studies, southern African studies and religious studies.

Product details

• Authors: Les Switzer
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2023
• EAN: 9789004541016
• ISBN: 978-90-04-54101-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 549 g
• Series: Studies in Christian Mission,
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity