Into Abyssinia (eBook)

The Odyssey of a Family

Carl E. Hansen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
352 Seiten
WestBow Press (Verlag)
978-1-6642-9069-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this autobiographical book, the author gives an informative and lively account of the first eight years of his and his family's living and serving in pre-revolutionary feudal Ethiopia. It is a story of adventure as a novice missionary couple learns and adapts to a vastly different culture while raising a family in the less developed hinterlands.The events take place from 1967 to 1975, a pivotal time in Ethiopia s history; a time marked by growing discontent with feudalism and the ancient imperial regime that supported it. It was a time of growing turmoil that, in the midst of drought and famine, spilled over into an armed revolution; a time when ignorant men with guns over-powered the best minds and forced a tradition-bound society to join in a bloody experiment with radical socialism.It was a time when the slow and difficult years of missionary effort in planting the seeds of the Christian gospel began to sprout and take root and grow into what would become a mighty movement of transformation in that society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Bedeno • Ethiopia • Meserete Kristos Church • Missionary • Oromo • Revolution • rural development
• ISBN-10: 1-6642-9069-9 / 1664290699
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6642-9069-3 / 9781664290693