'Pull up a good tree and push it outside'? The Rev Edward Tsewu's dispute with the Free Church of Scotland Mission
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Duncan, Graham A.
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Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University
Abstract
The Tsewu secession or dispute took place in the context of the emergence of African
Initiated Churches during the latter part of the nineteenth century as a response to
mission Christianity and an assertion of a distinct form of African Christianity. Tsewu’s
brand of response falls within the genre of the Ethiopian-type church which tended
to retain most of the outward expressions of the denominations which they left, eg.
liturgy, polity and doctrine. Tsewu led the first secession from the Presbyterian fold in
1896 and this prepared the ground for a further secession in 1898.
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Ethiopianism, Free church of Scotland, Lovedale institution, Pambani Mzimba, Presbytery of Kaffraria, James Stewart, Synod of Kaffraria, Edward Tsewu
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Duncan, GA 2012, ''Pull up a good tree and push it outside'? the Rev Edward Tsewu's dispute with the free church of Scotland mission', NGTT: Dutch Reformed Theological Journal / Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, vol. 53, no. 1&2, pp. 50-61.