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The history of Christian missionary enterprise in the southern part of Nigeria especially since the nineteenth century reveals the contributions of various missionary bodies to the civilization and development of the area. From the 1840's various Christian missionary bodies have done a lot to evangelize different parts of southern Nigeria, and also had brought about civilization and development of various forms in the area. It is a fact that meaningful missionary enterprise which had yielded enormous result in national development began in the 1840's in Yorubaland (1842), moved to the Efikland by 1846 under the Church of Scotland Mission and then to the Igbo heart land in 1857 spearheaded by the Methodist, the Anglican and the Roman Catholic Churches. This paper has therefore traced the history of the civilizing mission of the various missionary bodies that have been operating in southern Nigeria since the nineteenth century and has highlighted the enormous contributions made by these missionary bodies towards the development and civilization of the area.UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities vol 14 (2) 2013

"The Christian Right in U.S. Politics" published on by Oxford University Press.

With few exceptions, the field of Eastern Christian studies has primarily been concerned with historical-critical analysis, hermeneutics, and sociology. For the most part it has not attempted to bring Eastern Christian philosophy into serious engagement with contemporary thought. This volume seeks to redress the matter by bringing the Eastern Christian tradition into a meaningful dialogue with contemporary philosophy. It boasts a diverse group of scholarsspecialists in ancient philosophy, analytic philosophy, and continental philosophywho engage with a wide range of pressing issues. Among other things, it addresses such topics as contemporary atheism, the metaphysics of action, religious epistemology, the philosophy of language, bioethics, the philosophy of race, and human rights. In so doing, it aims to introduce contemporary readers to unique perspectives and novel arguments often overlooked by mainstream anglophone philosophy.

A critical review of M. P. Fogarty's Christian Democracy in Western Europe, 1820-1953. That Christian democracy (CD) on its lower levels is so often ethically attractive & at its more exalted levels is correspondingly depressing is not merely an accident of circumstance. In CD, the 2nd term of the title is merely instrumental to the 1st. A CD is a Christian primarily, & a democrat only in a subordinate capacity. The adjective is more important than the noun. No real choice exists: since one term is spiritual & the other pol'al, it is obvious which necessarily takes precedence. It is for this reason that the behavior of Christian Democratic parties offers such a bewildering alternation of moral judgments & opportunist calculation, & why their behavior has been assessed so very differently by their apologists & by their detractors. CD's quite naturally feel called upon to make moral judgments in nearly every sphere of life-but since the criterion of these judgments is religious rather than pol'al, a merely opportunist selection of pol'al means to moral ends may at the same time appear perfectly permissible. Such is the more disquieting signif of that ideological flexibility in which, according to Fogarty, the CD's take particular pride. J. A. Fishman.