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Title: | Simon Kimbangu and the B.M.S. (Baptist Missionary Society) Tradition |
Author: | Mackay, Donald J. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 113-171 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subjects: | African Independent Churches Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1581035.pdf |
Abstract: | This article examines the Kimbanguist movement in the Bas-Zaire, begun in 1921 by Simon Kimbangu, in terms of its links with the Baptist Missionary Society mission church at Ngombe Lutete, Zaire. It shows that the Kimbanguist movement arose, not in reaction to, but rather in conscious continuity with the Christianity of the church. There were two aspects to that continuity: the first structural, that is, the offices and officers of the mission church were carried over into the earliest phases of the Kimbanguist movement; the second aspect was conceptual, that is, the theology of the movement flowed out of the theology of the church which preceded it. Notes, ref. |