The church in the world: a historical-ecclesiological study of the Church of Uganda with particular reference to post-independence Uganda, 1962-1992

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This thesis is an ecclesiological-historical study of the Church of Uganda. a member of the Anglican Communion, from its origins in the 1870s to the 1990s. with particular focus on the turbulent socio-political context of post-independence Uganda. The study of ecclesiology in an African context has not attracted sufficient scholarship, in comparison to the several African church histories and church-state studies. Most church studies in a socio-political context follows the religion-in-politics or church-state methodological approaches. The present study seeks to redress this imbalance by developing an ecclesiological analysis of the Church of Uganda, utilising a `church-in-the-world' contextual approach, which gives priority to the indigenous narrative of the history and theological identity of the Church of Uganda. The account begins with the social-cultural-political context of Buganda in which the Church was born, as a result of the work of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) missi

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