YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN PARAMILITARY BODIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE ROYAL SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN NIGERIA, 2002-2021

Christ Apostolic Church is a foremost African Indigenous Church which has proliferated and shown phenomenal growth particularly in Nigeria. One of the factors responsible for the growth and expansion of the church in Nigeria was the activities of its youth organisations among which is the Royal Shepherds. This article focuses on the Royal Shepherds which is the paramilitary outfit of Christ Apostolic Church in Nigeria. The research highlights the history of the organisation, its aims and objectives and its administration. It also features the programmes and activities of the organisation and gives detailed attention to the specific contributions of the organisation to the growth of Christ Apostolic Church in Nigeria. Data were gathered through the use of structured oral interview, archival materials and bibliographical search. Useful suggestions were offered to improve the operations of the organisation.

YOUTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHURCH GROWTH: A CASE STUDY OF THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD SOCIETY (LOWS) OF CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH, NIGERIA, 1966 - 1992

EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) ◽

10.36713/epra5210 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 319-322

Author(s):

Afolabi Samuel Oluseyi Ph.D

Keyword(s):

Leadership Development ◽

Church Growth ◽

Church Planting ◽

World Society ◽

Indigenous Church ◽

The World ◽

The Church ◽

Interview Questionnaire ◽

Christ Apostolic Church was the foremost African Indigenous Church in Nigeria and its history dates back to 1918. The growth and expansion of the church in Nigeria was aided by the activities of its youth organisations, foremost among which was the Light of the World Society. This article examines the origin of the society, its objectives, administration and programmes. The article also highlights the various contributions of the society to the growth and expansion of the church via evangelism and church planting, promotion of Christian education and leadership development. The study adopted George Ehusani’s concept which states that the youths should not be seen as mere objects or targets of the Church’s programmes and projects, rather they should be seen as active agents of evangelization. Data were gathered through the use of structured oral interview, questionnaire, archival materials and bibliographical search. KEYWORDS: Christ Apostolic Church, Light of the World, Youths, Growth and Expansion

Centenary of Pentecostalism in Ghana (1917–2017): A case study of Christ Apostolic Church International

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v75i4.5185 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 75 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Peter White

Keyword(s):

Economic Impact ◽

Early History ◽

Administrative Structure ◽

The Past ◽

Historical Literature ◽

History Of ◽

The Church ◽

Future Reference ◽

Centenary celebrations in every organisation are approached with joy and reflection of the past, present, impact on society and planning for the years ahead. The Christ Apostolic Church International (CACI), which is acknowledged by Ghanaian Pentecostals as the mother of Pentecostalism, celebrated its Centenary of Pentecostalism in 2017. Having come this far and being acknowledged as the pioneer of classical Pentecostalism in Ghana, it is very important that issues concerning the church, its leadership and impact on society are discussed and properly recorded for future reference. Although some Ghanaian Pentecostal scholars did their best to document some aspects of history of CACI, their focus was limited to the early history of the church and the ministry of Apostle Peter Newman Anim. This article contributes to the existing missional and historical literature on CACI by bringing on board some of the historical gaps. This article also discusses the miraculous dispensation in CACI, their leadership and administrative structure, their growth and challenges as well as their religio-social and economic impact in Ghana.

The Hebrew Translation of the Carolingian Lord's Prayer: A Case Study in Using Linguistics to Understand History

AJS Review ◽

10.1017/s0364009419000874 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 23-47

Author(s):

Eitan Berkowitz

Keyword(s):

Religious Life ◽

Ninth Century ◽

Linguistic Analysis ◽

Lord's Prayer ◽

Future Studies ◽

Language Study ◽

History Of ◽

Textual Research ◽

Through a linguistic analysis of the Hebrew Lord's Prayer, this article endeavors to reach a new understanding of the function of this text in the lives of its users, concluding that the ninth-century Carolingian writer/translator meant for this text to be sung aloud. This article goes back to the basics of textual research—philology and language study—in order to determine the correct historical framework through which to understand this much-debated text, thus adding to our understanding of the religious life and practice of the nuns of Essen at the polyglottic crossroads of Latin and German, Hebrew and Greek. This paper is also an invitation for future studies to continue its effort to rewrite the history of Hebrew in the church, for historians to broaden their toolbox, and for linguists and philologists to contribute their insights to other fields.

Modern Pentecostalism as an Urban Phenomenon: The Case of the Family of God Church in Zimbabwe

Exchange ◽

10.1163/157254305774851484 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 349-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Lovemore Togarasei

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Growth And Development ◽

Urban Residents ◽

The Past ◽

Pentecostal Movement ◽

Family Of God ◽

The Family ◽

History Of ◽

AbstractThe past twenty to thirty years in the history of Zimbabwean Christianity have witnessed the emergence of a new breed of Pentecostalism that tends to attract the middle and upper classes urban residents. This paper presentsfindings from a case study of one such movement, the Family of God church. It describes and analyses the origins, growth and development of this church as an urban modern Pentecostal movement. Thefirst section of the paper discusses the origins and development of the church focusing on the life of the founder. The second section focuses on the teaching and practices of the church. The church's doctrines and practices are here analysed tofind out the extent to which these have been influenced by the socio-political and economic challenges in the urban areas. The paper concludes that the modern Pentecostal movement is meant to address urban needs.

Crowdfunding and accounting history: The construction of the Gran Madre di Dio Church (Turin, 1814 - 1832)

De Computis - Revista Española de Historia de la Contabilidad ◽

10.26784/issn.1886-1881.v17i1.372 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 36

Author(s):

Silvia Sinicropi ◽

Damiano Cortese ◽

Massimo Pollifroni ◽

Valter Cantino

Keyword(s):

Social Impact ◽

Tourist Attraction ◽

Political Event ◽

Cultural Patrimony ◽

Accounting History ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

The City ◽

This study emphasizes the history of accountancy, shedding light on its link with artistic and cultural patrimony, an issue that is scarcely addressed but is nearly always a matter underlying the greatest monuments of our civilization. As a case study, this study focuses on one of the significant architectural monuments of the City of Turin: the “Church of Gran Madre di Dio”; which was built to celebrate a historical and political event. Today it is a place of worship, a tourist attraction and a pilgrimage site. The current study corrects, from an accounting and historical perspective, the paucity of knowledge related to the Church of “Gran Madre di Dio”, and it also highlights the social impact its construction had upon the Turin area.

The Study of Chinese Women and the Anglican Church in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Christian Women in Chinese Society ◽

10.5790/hongkong/9789888455928.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 19-36

Author(s):

Kwok Pui-lan

Keyword(s):

Chinese Women ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Perspective ◽

Anglican Church ◽

Mission Schools ◽

Cross Cultural Study ◽

Missionary Movement ◽

History Of ◽

This chapter presents a cross-cultural study of gender, religion, and culture, using the history of Chinese women and the Anglican Church in China as a case study. Instead of focusing on mission history as previous studies usually have done, it treats the missionary movement as a part of the globalizing modernity, which affected both Western and Chinese societies. The attention shifts from missionaries to local women’s agencies, introducing figures such as Mrs. Zhang Heling, Huang Su’e, and female students in mission schools. It uses a wider comparative frame (beyond China and the West) to contrast women’s work by the Church Missionary Society in China, Iran, India, and Uganda. It also places the ordination for the first woman in the Anglican Communion—Rev. Li Tim Oi—in the development of postcolonial awareness of the church.

MATTHEW TINDAL'SRIGHTS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH(1706) AND THE CHURCH–STATE RELATIONSHIP

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x11000045 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 54 (3) ◽

pp. 717-740 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

DMITRI LEVITIN

Keyword(s):

Church And State ◽

Legal Tradition ◽

Glorious Revolution ◽

Christian Church ◽

Political Issues ◽

History Of ◽

The Glorious Revolution ◽

The Relationship ◽

ABSTRACTMatthew Tindal's Rights of the Christian church (1706), which elicited more than thirty contemporary replies, was a major interjection in the ongoing debates about the relationship between church and state in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Historians have usually seen Tindal's work as an exemplar of the ‘republican civil religion’ that had its roots in Hobbes and Harrington, and putatively formed the essence of radical whig thought in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. But this is to misunderstand theRights. To comprehend what Tindal perceived himself as doing we need to move away from the history of putatively ‘political’ issues to the histories of ecclesiastical jurisprudence, patristic scholarship, and biblical exegesis. The contemporary significance of Tindal's work was twofold: methodologically, it challenged Anglican patristic scholarship as a means of reaching consensus on modern ecclesiological issues; positively, it offered a powerful argument for ecclesiastical supremacy lying in crown-in-parliament, drawing on a legal tradition stretching back to Christopher St Germain (1460–1540) and on Tindal's own legal background. Tindal's text provides a case study for the tentative proposition that ‘republicanism’, whether as a programme or a ‘language’, had far less impact on English anticlericalism and contemporary debates over the church–state relationship than the current historiography suggests.

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

EVALUATION OF AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH BETWEEN HBIM AND ARCHITECTURE HISTORY

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w11-225-2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol XLII-2/W11 ◽

pp. 225-229 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

S. Beltramo ◽

F. Diara ◽

F. Rinaudo

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Integrative Approach ◽

Historical Evolution ◽

Objective Knowledge ◽

Final Data ◽

Heritage Buildings ◽

History Of ◽

Abstract. Restorative and conservative operations of Cultural Heritage buildings involve the historical and objective knowledge of the context. Meaning the knowledge as a diachronic awareness of the history of buildings should help the safeguarding processes of heritage assets.The integration of historical information inside a HBIM platform involves huge benefits for the Cultural Heritage case management, its periodical monitoring operations and valorisation processes, moreover the historical evolution is correctly considered. This solution allows to maximize the comprehension and also communication of the analysed context through few simple steps as visualize, read and query in order to ensure the accuracy and quality of final data (Diara et al, 2018).This new court of methodologic cooperation will be tested on the case study of the medieval Abbey of Staffarda (CN, Italy) and its refectory in a deeper way where, thanks to recent studies, it has been possible to reconstruct analysis map for a complete vision of the church and the Abbey’s complex as well (Beltramo et al, 2019).

Non-compliant Reading and Annotating in the Ruthenian Reformation: Cyril of Jerusalem’s Mystagogical Catechisms from Szymon Budny’s Library

East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies ◽

10.21226/ewjus558 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 89-121

Author(s):

Maria Ivanova

Keyword(s):

Intellectual History ◽

History Of The Book ◽

Religious Leader ◽

Reading Practices ◽

Scholarly Research ◽

Church Father ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

While the works of the Antitrinitarian thinker and religious leader Szymon Budny (ca. 1530-93) have been the subject of extensive scholarly research, his library, marginalia, and reading practices have been significantly less examined. Following the discovery of a copy of Cyril of Jerusalem’s Mystagogical Catechisms (Vienna, 1560) belonging to Budny, I analyze Budny’s notes and comments regarding the Latin translation of Cyril’s text as a case study of Budny’s attempt to recover the Church Father from the Catholic post-Tridentine agenda and his own subsequent re-appropriation of Cyril for his radical non-adorantist program. By exploring Budny’s subversive reading and annotating strategies, I demonstrate Budny’s original contributions to the development of Antitrinitarian thought in Europe. I also illustrate how marginalia and paratexts reflect not only the history of the book in which they are found, but also how they throw light on religious and intellectual history.

THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (CACSA) TO THE GROWTH AND EXPANSION OF CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH NIGERIA, 1971-2015

EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) ◽

10.36713/epra5053 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 579-584

Author(s):

Afolabi Samuel Oluseyi Ph.D

Keyword(s):

Leadership Development ◽

Career Development ◽

Young People ◽

Church Planting ◽

Formal Education ◽

Outcome Data ◽

Indigenous Church ◽

The Church ◽

Interview Questionnaire ◽

Christ Apostolic Church was the foremost African Indigenous Church in Nigeria and its history dates back to 1918. The growth and expansion of the church in Nigeria was aided by the activities of its youth organisations, prominent among which is the Christ Apostolic Church Students’ Association. This article examines the origin of the Association, its vision, administration and programmes. The article also highlights the various contributions of the society to the growth and expansion of the church via evangelism and church planting, music ministry, establishment of Campus Fellowship Centres, promotion of Christian/formal education, career development and leadership development. The study adopted Matthew Seebach’s theory which is based on active forms of participation of youths in which the involvement of young people results in an impact on a process, influences a decision, or produces an outcome. Data were gathered through the use of structured oral interview, questionnaire, archival materials and bibliographical search. KEYWORDS: Christ Apostolic Church, Association, Youths, Growth and Expansion.