Revisiting the relevant History of Livingstonia Mission and its Subsequent Synod Developments in reformed church perspective

Abstract

This study will revisit the relevant history of the Livingstonia Mission and its subsequent Synod developments in Malawi beginning from the early years to present day in 2022. The history of the Livingstonia Mission was written in a European Missionary perspective, there was therefore need to revisit the relevant data in African reformed perspective. Mission history, with reference to the study of Christianity in Africa requires this new approach to mission historiography, “a more honest and more critical review of the theoretical and socio-theological assumptions out of which the African church as it is today, in its fragmented state, has been formed” (Maluleke, 1989:103). The study used a descriptive and interdisciplinary methodology approaches to understand research work. The aim of the study was to investigate, scrutinize and chronologically revisit and analyse the relevant history of the Livingstonia Mission and the subsequent Synod beginning from the early years of its Missio- Dei establishment in the reformed church perspective.

Keywords

• livingstonia mission
• church of scotland
• missions
• missio dei
• calvinism
• presbyterian
• hierarchical
• reformed church polity