Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xv |
Igbo Culture at the Time of Encounter with Christianity | p. 1 |
Cosmology | p. 1 |
The Igbo Concept of the Supreme Being | p. 2 |
Igbo Deities and Spiritual Forces | p. 5 |
Ala, the Earth Deity | p. 6 |
Ethics | p. 7 |
The Basis of Igbo Morality | p. 7 |
Igbo Concepts of Good and Evil | p. 8 |
The Igbo Moral Imperative | p. 9 |
The Igbo Moral Institutions | p. 11 |
Economy | p. 12 |
Agriculture | p. 12 |
Trade | p. 13 |
Manufacture | p. 15 |
Politics | p. 16 |
Family and Lineage Heads | p. 17 |
The Council of Elders | p. 18 |
Wealth as a Source of Power | p. 18 |
Titled Men | p. 19 |
Character as a Source of Power | p. 20 |
Age-Grades | p. 21 |
The Irish Spiritans | p. 31 |
The Making of Modern Ireland | p. 31 |
Ireland's Colonial History | p. 32 |
Land | p. 32 |
The Great Famine | p. 34 |
The Making of Modern Irish Catholicism | p. 34 |
Irish Catholicism, the Penal laws, and the Famine | p. 34 |
"Catholicism of the Irish Kind" | p. 36 |
A Brief History of the Spiritans | p. 37 |
Claude Francois Poullart des Places (1679-1709) | p. 38 |
Apostolate | p. 39 |
Foreign Missions | p. 40 |
Venerable Francis Mary Paul Libermann (1802-1852) | p. 41 |
Apostolate | p. 43 |
The Merger | p. 44 |
A Brief History of the Irish Spiritans | p. 45 |
Initial Contacts | p. 46 |
Early Years in Ireland | p. 46 |
Foreign Missions: Beginning - 1900 | p. 48 |
Foreign Missions: 1900-1970 | p. 50 |
The Sources of the Irish Spiritan Mission Theology in Igboland | p. 59 |
Libermann's Mission Theology | p. 59 |
Mission as Abandonment to God | p. 60 |
Holiness of Life as Essential for Mission | p. 61 |
Rule of Life as Essential to Missionary Life | p. 63 |
Harmonious Relations with Civil Authority | p. 64 |
Africans Not Inferior to Europeans | p. 65 |
Inculturation | p. 66 |
Lack of Ecumenism | p. 67 |
Missionary Methodology | p. 67 |
Official Catholic Statements on Mission before Vatican II | p. 68 |
Maximum illud | p. 69 |
Rerum ecclesiae | p. 72 |
Evangelii praecones | p. 75 |
Princeps pastorum | p. 79 |
The Mission Theology of the Irish Spiritans in Igboland | p. 87 |
Irish Spiritans' Missionary Training | p. 88 |
Shanahan's Missionary Training | p. 88 |
Irish Spiritan Formation from 1917-1960 | p. 90 |
Assessment of the Irish Spiritan Missionary Formation | p. 92 |
The Goal of Mission | p. 95 |
Missionary Motivation | p. 96 |
School Apostolate | p. 98 |
Irish Spiritans and Inculturation | p. 100 |
Language | p. 100 |
Indigenous Clergy | p. 102 |
Igbo Culture | p. 105 |
The Irish Spiritans and the Biafran War | p. 107 |
The Irish Spiritans and Vatican II | p. 108 |
Mission Theology Today: The Major Trends | p. 121 |
Official Catholic Statements on Mission from Vatican II to the Present | p. 122 |
Ad Gentes Divinitus | p. 122 |
Evangelii nuntiandi | p. 131 |
Redemptoris missio | p. 137 |
Ecclesia in Africa | p. 144 |
Some Current Developments in the Theology of Mission | p. 153 |
Mission as Contextualization | p. 153 |
Mission as Liberation | p. 156 |
Mission as Interreligious Dialogue | p. 158 |
Mission as Inculturation | p. 160 |
The Igbo Catholic Church and the Changing Face of Mission Today | p. 175 |
Igbo Culture Today | p. 175 |
Cosmology | p. 176 |
Ethics | p. 178 |
Economy | p. 180 |
Politics | p. 181 |
The Igbo Catholic Church Today | p. 183 |
The Training of Igbo Catholic Missionaries | p. 183 |
The Missionary Motivation of the Igbo Catholic Church | p. 186 |
The Missionary Methodology of the Igbo Catholic Church | p. 187 |
The Igbo Catholic Church and Inculturation | p. 188 |
The Igbo Catholic Church and the Igbo Language | p. 193 |
The Igbo Catholic Missionary and Indigenous Clergy | p. 196 |
The Place of the Igbo Catholic Church in the Church's Mission Today | p. 198 |
Portrait of Igbo Catholic Missionaries | p. 204 |
Conclusion | p. 215 |
Bibliography | p. 219 |
Map of Nigeria | p. 230 |
Map of Igboland | p. 231 |
Index | p. 232 |
About the Author | p. 243 |
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