{"product_id":"mission-churches-and-african-customary-marriage-von-onesimus-ngundu","title":"Mission Churches and African customary marriage","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnesimus Ngundu examines the question of the  validity and legitimacy of African customary  marriage in the wake of the introduction and  enforcement of the European Christian Church  marriage tradition in the thirteenth century and  civil marriage in the sixteenth century. On one  hand, Africans continue to contract their  marriages traditionally first before going for  either a civil or church marriage ceremony. On the  other hand, mission founded-churches, because of  their refusal to recognise African customary  marriages,continue to publicly discipline any  African Christian couple who consummate their  marriage after a customary marriage but before a  church wedding which can take place several months  or even years after the customary marriage.In  response to some real social and moral dilemmas that  confront African Christian couples at marriage,Dr  Ngundu offers contemporary African Christianity a  practical approach to African Christian marriage  that reduces social, legal and moral dilemmas  for African Christian couples at marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838393599\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAt what point should a couple married by African custom be recognised as married in the sight of God?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838393599","offer_id":39469298581597,"sku":"9783838393599","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/4a9cd620-c4d3-40d9-9726-8df75f71926c.jpg?v=1776056559","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/mission-churches-and-african-customary-marriage-von-onesimus-ngundu","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}