Scope and Contents
These papers represent the source materials gathered by Breman while preparing her dissertation, "The Association of Evangelicals in Africa: Its History, Organization, Members, Projects, External Relations, and Message", which was published in 1996. More than 8,000 photocopies from documents in the offices of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya are supplemented by materials related to Dr. Tokunboh Adeyemo and Dr. Byang H. Kato.
The first nine series directly reflect the divisions created by Breman in her dissertation, while the last three are additional gathered materials. Breman's dissertation was published as The Association of Evangelicals in Africa : its history,organization, members, projects, external relations and message by Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, in1996. It has been described as a "monumental work" and "a major reference text." The primary source materials available in this collection were the basis for Breman's dissertation and provide even more extensive documentation of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa.
Dates
- 1962-1996
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Christina Breman.
Arrangement
- I. History of Association of Evangelicals in Africa
- II. Organization of AEA
- III. Members of AEA
- IV. Projects of AEA
- V. External Relations of AEA
- VI. Message of AEA
- VII. Conclusion
- VIII. Appendices
- IX. Literature and Sources
- X. Audiotapes
- XI. Adeyemo Notebooks
- XII. Kato Notebooks
Extent
10 Linear Feet (26 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Abstract
These papers represent the source materials gathered by Breman while preparing her dissertation, "The Association of Evangelicals in Africa: Its History, Organization, Members, Projects, External Relations, and Message", which was published in 1996. More than 8,000 photocopies from documents in the offices of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya are supplemented by materials related to Dr. Tokunboh Adeyemo and Dr. Byang H. Kato. Christina Maria Breman was a missionary for the Africa Inland Mission International (AIM) who was forced by ill health to return to the Netherlands. There she completed a Ph. D. at the Theological Deparment of the University of Utrecht under missiology Dr. Jan A. B. Jongeneel.
Biographical / Historical
Christina Maria Breman was born in 1941. She was a missionary for the Africa Inland Mission International (AIM) until forced by ill health to return to the Netherlands. There she completed a Ph. D. at the Theological Deparment of the University of Utrecht under missiology Dr. Jan A. B. Jongeneel. Her life was cut short by a recurrence of cancer.
The Association of Evangelicals in Africa, the subject of Breman's study, was established in Kenya in 1966 and now has branches in most sub Saharan countries.
Under the leadership of the first African General Secretary, Dr. Byang H. Kato from Nigeria, AEA grew as an organization and started evangelical theological training on a university level in Africa. Due to Kato's efforts, the Bangui Evangelical School of theology in the Central Africa Republic in francophone Africa was established in the 1970's. The English counterpart is the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology.
Under Kato's successor, Dr. Tokunboh Adeyemo, also from Nigeria, the AEA became a movement with strong influence in evangelical Africa. Adeyemo also served as Chairman of the International Council of the World Evangelical Fellowship.
Processing Information
Place names were modernized in the description, with the name originally used in the collection material or in an older version of the finding aid in parenthesis: e.g. “Beijing (Peking)” or “Benin (Dahomey)”.
- Title
- Guide to the Christina M. Breman Papers
- Author
- Compiled by Martha Lund Smalley
- Date
- 2000
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared According To Local Divinity Library Descriptive Practices
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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