Iviyo loFakazi bakaKristu explained
Iviyo loFakazi bakaKristu (in English: The Legion of Christ's Witnesses) is an evangelical and charismatic movement within the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
History
Iviyo had its origins in Zululand, in 1944, when Anglican priest Philip Mbatha had a vision of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. At more or less the same time, another priest from the Diocese of St John's, Alpheus Zulu, (who later became bishop of Zululand), was experiencing a crisis in his ministry. The two priests met periodically for the next few years and in 1948, founded Iviyo. The priests were motivated to start the movement on the basis of their visionary experiences and their view of the Anglican church as dry and equivocal. The movement they formed was essentially extremely high church, incorporating pentecostal evangelicalism. Iviyo is a Zulu Anglican movement that is expressly high church, charismatic and evangelical. The high church roots can be explained by the founders' close association with the Community of the Resurrection. Its aim was to promote Christian proficiency — living a disciplined Christian life of prayer, fasting, sacraments, Bible reading, confession and evangelism.
During the Apartheid era in the 1980s, Iviyo was seen as being aligned with the Zulu Nationalist/Inkatha/right-wing political forces.
In 2018, the Diocese of Grahamstown started a Xhosa language version of the movement, named Ibutho Labavakalisi Bakakristu.
References
- Diocesan Launch Conference of iButho lwabavuseleli baKristu . Anon . Umbuliso - the Greeting . June–July 2018 . 3 . 8 September 2018 .
- The Legion of Christ's Witnesses, a Research Report . Shorten . Richard . Religion in Southern Africa . 6 . 2 . July 1985 . 37–50 . Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa . 24763726 .
- Book: Ward, Kevin . [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=hQwU04vx98MC|page=149}} A History of Global Anglicanism]. 149. 2006. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-00866-2.
- A Little Light on the Legion . Worsnip . Michael . Reality . 21 . 1 . January 1989. 19–20 .
Further reading
- Book: Bompani, Barbara. David. Goodhew. [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=WiAlDwAAQBAJ|page=138}} Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present]. 138. 2016. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-317-12442-9. South Africa.
- Book: Hayes, Stephen T. . [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=gxZ_QgAACAAJ}} Black Charismatic Anglicans: The Iviyo LoFakazi BakaKristu and Its Relations with Other Renewal Movements]. 1990. University of South Africa. Pretoria. 978-0-86981-631-8.
- Masters . The iviyo lofakazi bakakristu and the Kwandebele mission of the Anglican Diocese of Pretoria . Hayes . S.T.W. . . 1994 . 20.500.11892/139212 .
- Book: Heaney, Robert S.. William L.. Sachs. [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=6_U-DwAAQBAJ|page=328}} Global Anglicanism, C. 1910-2000]. 328. 2018. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-964301-1. Anglicanism in Southern Africa during the Twentieth Century.
- Book: Hexham. Irving. Poewe. Karla O. . Karla O. . Poewe. [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=3wqGwQsoLmwC|page=62}} Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture]. 62. 1994. Univ of South Carolina Press. 978-0-87249-996-6. Charismatic Churches in South Africa.
- Bishop Zulu and Iviyo - A Response to Michael Worsnip . Hill . Jean . Reality . July 1989 . 21 . 4 . 19 .
- Hocken. Peter. Stephen Hayes, Black Charismatic Anglicans: The Iviyo lofakazi bakaKristu and its Relations with Other Renewal Movements. (Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1990), xvi + 227 pp. 0-86981-634-4. Pneuma. 13. 1. 1991. 89–90. 0272-0965. 10.1163/157007491X00079.
- Iviyo as contextual spiritual direction in an African context : spirituality and well-being . Naidoo . Marilyn . Practical Theology in South Africa . 23 . 1 . January 2008 . 219–236 . 10500/14753 .
- Book: Wingate, Andrew . [{{google books |plainurl=y |id=LaLb9ohpSC0C|page=34}} Anglicanism: A Global Communion]. 34. 1998. Church Publishing, Inc.. 978-0-89869-717-9. African Anglicans and/or Pentecostals.
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