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The most comprehensive account ever written of the history of Christianity in Nigeria: a magisterial work. A Heritage of Faith is the story of the development of Christianity in Nigeria from the earliest times to the present. It reveals the breath-taking diversity, dynamism and innovativeness that has characterised, and that continues to define Christianity in Nigeria. A Heritage of Faith weaves the personal stories and pioneering efforts of the major figures that played significant roles in shaping their era, the prevailing Christian thought that defined each period, and parallel developments in the Nigerian state, into a fascinating history. This history which begins with the return of the liberated slaves from Sierra Leone in 1839, is divided into six movements: the Missionary movement, African Church movement, Prophetic/Healing movement, Pentecostal movement, Evangelical movement and Charismatic movement. Each movement traces the origin and growth of new and unique religious experiences and how they shaped Christian experience and witness in Nigeria. A Heritage of Faith connects the events happening in all parts of the country and in the different eras into a moving and absorbing story. This history has been greatly enriched by well-illustrated charts and the largest collection of photographs of any book on Nigeria's church history. It convincingly argues that Christianity has thrived and triumphed in Nigeria. The history of Christianity in Nigeria is the story of men and women determined to see the banner of Jesus Christ raised throughout the nation, and this story has the power to speak afresh to us today, writes Ayodeji Abodunde. Their lives stand as a testimony for every generation, and they bid us pick up the spiritual torch they faithfully and courageously carried.

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This quite remarkable history of Christianity in Nigeria is not just the first overall treatment of its subject on a grand scale, but a providential Christian history of great narrative power. -- JOHN D. Y. PEEL (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of London), author of Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba A Heritage of Faith is an incredibly ambitious work, and a real achievement by Ayodeji Abodunde. Nobody doubts the vast significance of Nigeria in the emerging Christian world landscape, and so it is enormously valuable to have a book of this kind, which offers nothing less than a history of the whole Christian epic in that nation. -- PHILIP JENKINS (Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor University), author of The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity I want to highly commend Ayodeji Abodunde for this monumental work he has done for the church in Nigeria. This work is an eye-opener to the fact that we are not a people without a Christian root. -- SUNDAY ADELAJA (The Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom for All Nations, Ukraine), author of Church Shift What Samuel Johnson (the author of History of the Yorubas) did for the Yorubas, Ayodeji Abodunde has now done for the church in Nigeria. -- AKINYELE OMOYAJOWO (Formerly Professor of Church History, University of Ife), author of Cherubim and Seraphim: The History of an African Independent Church It is clear from these pages that Ayodeji Abodunde has produced a panoramic review of Christianity in Nigeria: from the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1807, till the Charismatic movements of the 1970s. This book is a remarkable work. -- MODUPE ODUYOYE, Literature Secretary, Christian Council of Nigeria (1968-1990) A Heritage of Faith is a definitive, well researched and eminently readable historical chronicle of the Christian faith in Nigeria, a prophetic land of destiny. -- OLUBI JOHNSON, Senior Pastor, Scripture Pasture Christian Centre, Ibadan

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