What is Happening to Christianity? Insights from Africa
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Christianity’s centre of gravity has shifted to the Global South. Prosperity churches, 'born again' politicians, prophets, healers and exorcists are now typical expressions of Christianity worldwide. What do these changes mean for our understanding of the world’s largest religion, in particular with regard to secularism, politics, and international development?
Drawing on examples from Africa, the lecture shows how these movements challenge established notions of Christian doctrine and institutional order, and how contemporary Christianity reflects the wider fragmentations and imbalances of the modern world.
A lecture by Dr Jörg Haustein
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Selling heaven and self forgiveness vicariously is a very, very, very lucrative business.
Allow fear of failure to be relieved by faith plus dismissing poverty while thinking all things are possible and collection baskets will never be empty.
Africa needs honest officials and free education for all. Education first then they can choose or reject religion.
Education is never free. Someone is paying for it, and they make sure that what is taught fits their narrative.
@mason Christianity has been African for over 1900 years. The Bible says "Proclaim the Gospel to all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit". Western Europeans are committing cultural suicide.
The decline of Christianity is an ongoing trend in West and North Europe. Developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities in the post-World War II era have shifted towards post-Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural and multifaith societies. Infant baptism has declined in many nations, with thousands of churches closing or merging due to lack of attendees. There is also evidence of decline in North America (especially in Canada) and in Australia.
Yes and eventually when demographic decline sets in, large quantities of Christians will stream into these countries to revive religion
This is important information required to inform predictions of the future of Africa and the West.
They learn their wickedness from the Western Christianity.
Objectively speaking, Christianity is middle eastern.
....and have you not heard about the Coptic Popes?
Wikkid. 🤟
@@Tacit_Tern Oh puuuurlease! Talk about passing the buck! Let me rephrase what Victoria Brown is trying to say
"They learnt their wickedness from the Western form of Christianity introduced to them during colonisation"
@@scipioafricanus9841
That is literally the European form. Not this mysterious "western".... which doesn't exist. And if you're referring to the East/West schism, then that only applies to Catholicism; and it doesn't account for the religious persecution of Christians in "the east".
Hmm. I need to look up a fairly recent book on the history of East vs West - the differences and their implications.
The Portuguese word ‘Feiticeiro’ means ‘sorcerer’ - not ‘amulet’ as stated in this lesson.
Correct. Should have said feitiço, which has a range of meanings from charms to spells. Etymology and relationship to fetishism as stated though.
@@joerghaustein5101 10:25 "Historically, the accusation that Africans are wrongly enchanting the world
has accompanied the Christian expansion into Africa from the first Portuguese enslavement expeditions on."
You also should have mentioned that this accusation has a deeper Judeochristian history. Moses along with his Ethiopian wife, Zipporah, made the same accusation against Egypt. Pharaoh Siamun (Solomon) was also accused of the same thing following his marriage to Katimala of Nubia (Queen of Sheba). Africans have accused other Africans of wrongly enchanting the world thousands of years before the Portuguese.
Christianity is great for taming the masses .. specifically the poor, it will do well in Africa
Well under control, of course. 😁
I dont know if its fortunate or the contrary but the Vatican is the only church with the infrastructure built to expansion.
@@AthosRac
Did you know the Vatican receives annual payments to remain silent about the religious persecution of Christians in China?
Clearly know nothing of the history of Christianity then
@@China_Secret_Police No, I don't, because that is not true.
@@isoldam
Feelings don't change the facts of the matter. My family fled from China to the United States, due to the Christian persecution in China.
.....your comment was either a little bit glib, or very intentionally disingenuous. But i would rather assume you're not a hateful person, but a lot of human suffering is still going on in China; just for believing in Christ and the Catechism .
Exactly what I have been talking about 🙏
His conclusions are off. Individuals and groups control others and our common resources by replacing common values with imposed belief structures. Too willing.
He nowhere denies this can - or has - happened. Among many other things! But your view seems far too dismissive of other possibilities.
One needs to research the doctrine and sociology of the peculiar Pentecostal faith. Are they still using snakes and talking in tongues?
Research on Pentecostalism is legion in history, anthropology, theology. After all, it is one of the largest and most variegated Christian movements of the present. Tongues abound, but are not universal. Snake handling was only ever practised by a small Appalachian sect.
I do not think UA-cam is sending me all Gresham College's uploaded videos.🔔
As usual religion flourishes where people are suffering. Throughout history there is an inverse relation between prosperity and religious belief.
Why is the presenter constantly reading a script? I don't doubt that christianity in all its forms is very questionable even in your own country Mr presenter
"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
- Yeshua Hamashiach ✝
I do wonder how you can study Pentacostal theology and more to the point practice without a thorough grounding in the theology of Marxism given that Capital has a lot to do with it.
Banks make money , the principal , from thin air . They create the principal but not the interest that you need to pay back in addition to the principal . Churches want ten points off the top of tax free money to help get you to a place nobody can prove exists or has ever came back from . Two sides of the same grift .
Grifting preacher leaching on the gullible. Let's make it illegal.
The lecture comes across as in the usual patronising kind of analysis. The fundamental assumptions seem to include a premise that all claims of spiritual manifestation are bunk. If that is not the premise then a better place to start would be the quite copious website "Dictionary of African Christianity" showing genuine African Christians at work. He could have made reference to for example the barefoot Ethiopian missionary among hundreds of expressions of genuine expressions of the Christian faith. If on the other hand, he accepts that spiritual manifestations can be valid, he needs to do a much better job. There are practitioners of witchcraft in the Anglican church in Great Britain. The fact that they are well dressed does not make a difference. The record of a certain royal who met the sangoma in South Africa and discussed his spiritual guide Red Cloud still exists. Understand that the established churches in Europe, not only England, are infested with spiritists and satanists, in other words, obeahmen. And also witches
For 40 yrs I did deep study and it debunked dogmatic doctrines and started to do the Hebrew feasts, became more spiritual
I love ASIAN MESSAGE PARLORS 💕 ❤️
All men are mortal
Joe is mortal
Conclusion: joe is a man
Is this correct ?
Also
Nothing is better than eternal happiness
A cheese sandwich is better than nothing.
Conclusion: a cheese sandwich better than eternal happiness
Do you agree ?
@@tariq_sharif No, because this is a bait and switch. "Nothing" in this sense is operating under two different definitions depending on which sentence it is presented in. When people claim "Nothing is better than Eternal Paradise", they mean, "There is nothing within existence itself that we know of," not literally nothing at all. Which means a sandwich is not better than "nothing" in the sense it was used originally.
@@sterd1149 the question was for Jacquline, not you, stop helping her.
She claims to have done "deep study" for 40 years no less and become more spiritual, I am testing her ability to think critically.
Do not dare to answer the syllogism for her.
Ps well done
ONE.
THERE NOW THREATENED BY THEIR OWN BECAUSE THE AFRIKAN HAVE GOT IT BETTER.
MY FOOT, WHILE ITS DYING IN THEIR GARDEN IN THE JUNGLE
ITS BEEN REFINED. THEY ARE
NOW DISAPPOINTED. I WONDER
WHAT THEY WILL BE UP TO.
How can Gresham college release this tripe! The college clearly has no checks and balances, nor does it vet properly it's lectures. It would be a service to the people of the world to entirely scrub this lecture from the internet and never allow it to see the light of day. May the lecturer be rebuked by adonai himself for hyper focusing on African churches alone, as if they are the only ones who practice false teachings!!!!
These serpentine folk..
there is absolutely nothing there.
*BS*