The Holiness Movement in Africa: A Sanctified Native Ministry

By Dr. Robert Lang’at, EBS

This book is a comprehensive and seminal work that contends that the current evangelical and pietistic character of Christianity in Africa owes its origins to the Holiness Movement. It makes a historiographical case that African Christianity in its mainline Protestant, Evangelical, Pentecostal, as well as charismatic renewal forms, have their theological roots in historic holiness traditions. It is a case for vital and dynamic interface between revivalism and missions.

Dr. Lang’at postulates that the theology of entire sanctification and moral purity, brought by nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ holiness faith missions, served as the foundational bedrock for African Evangelical Christianity. This work demonstrates that there are more continuities, from mainline to evangelical to African-initiated churches in their quest for holiness, than the polemics tend to project. Albeit with various modifications, the conservative spiritual expressions of Christianity in Africa in the twenty-first century is courtesy of this legacy.

Will also be made available as an ebook on Amazon Kindle.