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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- AMU'S PULPIT MINISTRY: AN APPRAISAL OF CONTEXT, METHOD AND STYLE -- General Context -- "Amope Nkwatia Kotoko": history and context of KNUST -- Approach to study -- Amu's method and style -- The Bible in African languages -- ADESUA TRODOO: A CASE FOR HOLISTIC EDUCATION -- Girls and co-education -- Education, manual labour and social services -- Amu's Philosophy of Education: a summary -- POLITICS AND THE BUILDING OF A NATION STATE |
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Patriotism and early stirrings toward nationhood -- The 1948 boycott, crossroads shooting and pre-independence struggle -- Kwame Nkrumah's CPP and nascent multi-party democracy in Ghana -- A critique of the role of the clergy in politics -- Overthrow of the CPP and a call for national reconstruction -- TOWARD AN AFRICAN ECCLESIA -- Indigenous roots of Christian worship within Akan context -- The relevance of libation prayers within Christian context -- Forging an identity of the Church in Africa -- Superstition, religious belief and Christian faith |
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OF WORK ETHICS, SOCIETAL VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS -- The dignity of human labour and devotion to duty -- Bribery and corruption -- Environmental Care -- THE EMERGING ISSUES -- PART ONE -- TOWARD BUILDING A NATION STATE: EDUCATION AND OTHER CONCERNS (1934-1951) -- SUBJECT 1. JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM -- SUBJECT 2. VISION AND COURAGE -- SUBJECT 3. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY -- SUBJECT 4. MORNING DEVOTION HOMILIES -- SUBJECT 5. THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF LOVE -- SUBJECT 6. MORNING DEVOTION HOMILIES -- SUBJECT 7. THE BIBLE IN THE HOMELY SPEECH |
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SUBJECT 8. WE HAVE THE FORCES OF VICTORY ON OUR SIDE -- SUBJECT 9. MORNING DEVOTION HOMILIES -- SUBJECT 10. JESUS, THE FAILURE'S FRIEND -- SUBJECT 11. THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS -- ASENTITRIW 12. KWASAFO ASÔREKÔ HO HIA A EHIA MA NOKWARE KRISTOFO NYINAA -- (ENGLISH TRANSLATION) THE IMPORTANCE OF WORSHIP FOR THE FAITHFUL -- SUBJECT 13. THE DANGERS OF SELF-SATISFACTION -- SUBJECT 14. WHAT IS THE CHURCH? -- SUBJECT 15. ON SHARING GOD'S GIFTS WITH OTHERS -- SUBJECT 16. A RAY OF GLADNESS TO BRIGHTEN THE DARK HOUR OF SEEMING FAILURE -- SUBJECT 17. NO TRUE RELIGION WITHOUT PERSONAL INNER CONVICTON |
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SUBJECT 18. THE PREPARATION OF HUMAN HEART -- OCCASION 19. AGGREY MEMORIAL DAY -- SUBJECT 20. LIBERTY UNDER LAW -- SUBJECT 21. ACHIMOTA AND OUTSIDE CRITICISM -- SUBJECT 22. A DANGEROUS DESIRE -- SUBJECT 23. THE EFFORTLESS RELIGION -- SUBJECT 24. WHO IS TO BLAME? -- SUBJECT 25. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE -- SUBJECT 26. THE DISCIPLINE OF A HARD LIFE -- SUBJECT 27. THESE UPSETTERS OF THE WORLD -- PART TWO -- PRE AND POST INDEPENDENCE ERA (1952-1960) -- SUBJECT 28. CHANGING FROM GLORY INTO GLORY -- SUBJECT 29. THE THIRD SERVANT |
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The deepest and most significant aspect of the heritage of any nation lies in her people. A people's dignity, worth and value can be measured by their human resources. More important than mineral wealth, more significant than financial capital and of more value than land and property, are the leaders of thought and character, that a communal or social group can lay claim to. Towering above the tallest buildings, reaching deeper than the roots of ancient trees, are society's icons, doyens of a people's life and culture. Often unrecognized in their lifetime, sometimes vilified or else silenced by political forces, these persons represent a people's legacy and gift to humankind. Such was Dr. Ephraim Amu, native of Peki Avetile, son of West Africa's "Gold Coast", scholar, teacher, musician, ethicist, and preacher. In this book, Prof. Laryea has by careful and detailed research, rendered an invaluable service to posterity in unearthing and making available the life, works and public speeches of Dr Ephraim Amu. Thoughtfully selecting over sixty of Amu's sermons spanning a period of 50 years (1937 - 1986), Laryea enables us to more deeply enter the inner thoughts and expressions of one of Ghana's most illustrious sons, thus allowing us into the veritable engine room of the composer of Ghana's national song, "Yɛn ara asase ni", crafted by Amu in 1929. In doing so he has also opened up and thrown light upon very significant periods in the nation's history |
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Amu, Ephraim, 1899-1995.
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Amu, Ephraim, 1899-1995 fast |
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Sermons, English -- Ghana
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Composers -- Ghana
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Nationalists -- Ghana
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Music -- Africa -- Religious aspects
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Liturgics -- Africa -- Music
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Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)
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RELIGION / Sermons / Christian.
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Composers
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Liturgics
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Music -- Religious aspects
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Nationalists
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Sermons, English
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Africa
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Ghana
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Music
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Laryea, Philip T., writer of introduction, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789988647223 |
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9988647220 |
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