The impetus which led to the founding of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria came from the enthusiasm of the young church in Jamaica. [...] These slaves formed one of the earliest mission fields of the British evangelical churches, the Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians of the Scottish Missionary Society. [...] Since it is unlikely that the Quas, the original inhabitants of the area, would have allowed the Efiks to take over the Atlantic trade without a fight that would have been remembered in the traditions, the settlement must have taken place before the slave trade began in a serious way, an event which does not seem to have happened before the third quarter of the seventeenth century.9 The Efiks then [...] Like the free born, the slaves were members of an ufok; to them as well as to the free, the head of the house was ete, the father. [...] Chapter 2 AROCHUKU AND BEYOND THE AROCHUKU EXPEDITION At the beginning of the twentieth century, Europeans knew next to nothing about the country between the Niger and the Cross river apart from the waterways themselves and the trading states along the coast.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 285/.2669
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
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- Geographic Area Code
- f-nr---
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- 9780889207547 0889201803
- LCCN
- BX9162.N6
- LCCN Item number
- J646 1988eb
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- 1 electronic text (321 p. : 1 map)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)rjv00101433 (OCoLC)243568326 (CaOOCEL)402521
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 4
- Acknowledgments 5
- Introduction 6
- Chapter 1 Expansion on the Cross River 13
- Chapter 2 Arochuku and Beyond 37
- Chapter 3 The Government of the Church 77
- Chapter 4 A Learned and Godly Ministry 109
- Chapter 5 Neighbours in the Gospel 137
- Chapter 6 Religion and Literature 165
- Chapter 7 To Heal the Sick 196
- Chapter 8 The Mothers in Israel 226
- Chapter 9 The Church and Civil Power 247
- Chapter 10 The Authority of the Word 278
- Chapter 11 The Prophets and the People 308
- Index 313
- A 313
- B 313
- C 314
- D 315
- E 315
- F 317
- G 317
- H 317
- I 318
- J 319
- K 319
- L 319
- M 320
- N 321
- O 321
- P 322
- Q 322
- R 323
- S 323
- T 324
- U 325
- V 326
- W 326
- Y 326
- Map: Principal Centres of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, 1846-1966 327
