Seeing the World Through African Eyes: A Tribute to Andrew Walls

This is an autobiographical essay describing the seminal impact that eminent World Christianity scholar Andrew Walls (1928–2021) had on my intellectual life and scholarship from the time I became a student at the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World (at Edinburgh University)...

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Main Author: Hanciles, Jehu J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publishing 2023
In: International bulletin of mission research
Year: 2023, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 163-179
Further subjects:B Theological Education
B World Christianity
B Western intellectual heritage
B nationalist historiography
B African Christianity
B Sierra Leone Christianity
B Interdisciplinary
B Christian History
B mission studies
B Global
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