Blest Be the Ties That Bind: David Rood, the American Board Mission in Natal and Adams College - Couverture rigide

Rood, David A

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1925679012 ISBN 13 : 9781925679014

Editeur : ATF Press, 2018

Synopsis

David Rood is a descendant and namesake of the one about whom he writes. The author's meticulous archival research uncovers the long and faithful ministry (1848-1888) of a little known, and never-before written-about, American Board missionary, in Natal. The Reverend David Rood (1818-1891) is the founder of Adams College (est. 1853), education and spiritual font of many of southern Africa's most prominent black nationalists (Lembede, Matthews, Buthelezi, Nkomo and Khama), four of whom served as president of the African National Congress (Dube, Seme, Gumede and Luthuli). The book expands from biography to a prominent mission's history that began in 1835, and further, to a country's prenatal history. Though biographical and missiological, the text above all is 'relational' in that it emphasizes the intricate web of relationships, horizontal and lateral, familial and ecclesiastical, that linked north Americans to each other and to southern Africans thus making his text a chronicle of the ties that bound people together to contribute substantively to southern Africa's current modern democratic dispensation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David A. Rood, Jr. is a retired Certified Public Accountant living in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula with his wife Christina. When not following his grandchildren, he has developed a keen interest in geneology and the history of southern Africa to where he travelled to research this book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ATF Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925679012
• ISBN 13: 9781925679014
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible