Articles related to "Abstract Faith"
Converting a Savage Mind: Abstract Faith and Literal Savage
This article continues a description of Great Britain's 19th Century attempt to convert Africa to Christianity by exploring the European perception that Christianity was an "abstract faith" and their belief that Africans, with their "literal mind," could never comprehend it.
• abstract faith • literal mind • savages • natives • christianity
This article continues a description of Great Britain's 19th Century attempt to convert Africa to Christianity by exploring the European perception that Christianity was an "abstract faith" and their belief that Africans, with their "literal mind," could never comprehend it.
• abstract faith • literal mind • savages • natives • christianity