User talk:Drbest

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Ethiopian Churches
Hallo there,

Thank you so much for your contributions to the African Initiated Church page. I have reverted them for the time being because to the best of my knowledge Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity isn't usually defined as an African Initiated Church (AIC) - crucially, it doesn't really display the synthesis of Christian and traditional beliefs that characterises an AIC.

In an AIC context, Ethiopian churches began in South Africa and are Protestant congregations of recent formation that usually adhere fairly closely to the doctrines of their mother churches - often Methodist. Examples are the (Anglican) Order of Ethiopia and the Free Ethiopian Church of Southern Africa. They have Protestant doctrine, increasingly with some syncretism with traditional African beliefs such as ancestor worship, and a church hierarchy of black rather than white people - and of course they took their name from the fact that at the time of their foundation Ethiopia was the only independent African state of long standing. This link to a speech by Nelson Mandela gives quite a good potted history of the Ethiopian movement in southern Africa. They have no connection with Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity - either historically or doctrinally.

The situation is very confusing because in South Africa there are Ethiopian Orthodox congregations as well as Protestant AIC Ethiopian congregations.

Best wishes, Humansdorpie 23:04, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

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