Blantyre Mission and the Making of Modern Malawi

by Andrew C Ross

Overview

When a thousand leading members of the Nyasaland African Congress were detained under the emergency regulations imposed by the Federation government in 1959, the Presbyterian chaplains who ministered to them at Kanchedza Camp in Limbe were the late Rev Jonathan Sangaya and Rev Andrew C. Ross. They soon discovered that around 700 of the thousand men were members of the Church of Central African Presbyterian. This raised a question in the mind of the recently arrived Scottish missionary: how may we account historically for the fact that so many national leaders were Presbyterians? The quest to answer that question led him to produce the thorough examination of the foundation and early history of the Blantyre Mission of the Church of Scotland which is found in this book. Written in the mid-1960s, it remains today an indispensable work of reference for understanding the history of both church and nation in Malawi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789996060564
Publisher:	Luviri Press
Publication date:	05/16/2018
Series:	Luviri Reprints , #1
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Andrew C. Ross served with the Blantyre Synod of the CCAP in Malawi from 1958 until 1965 when he was deported from the country owing to his close association with the "rebel" ministers Masauko Chipembere and Yatuta Chisiza. On returning to Edinburgh he completed his Ph.D. and began his distinguished career as Lecturer in the History of Missions in the Faculty of Divinity. From 1978 to 1984 Dr Ross served as Principal of New College and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Scottish Base

Chapter 2: The Failure at Blantyre

Chapter 3: A New Beginning under David Clement Scott, 1881 - 1891

Chapter 4: The Need for a Protectorate

Chapter 5: Mission and Boma, 1889 - 1914

Chapter 6: The Growth of the Church: D.C. Scott as Leader

Chapter 7: Growth of the Church: Hetherwick as Leader

Chapter 8: The War and the Beginning of a New Day