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Article: The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492-1962.
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- Church History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492-1962. By Arthur Charles Dayfoot. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 1999. xviii + 360 pp. $49.95 cloth.
Arthur Charles Dayfoot argues that one Christian impulse has driven the West Indian Church from the earliest European settlements to the mid-twentieth century. "West Indian" means, it is important to note, the Caribbean islands that became Anglophone even if their first white settlers were not English, while "church" should be understood, Dayfoot insists, in the singular. The Shaping of the West Indian Church treats the Catholic and Protestant missionaries and settlers and their interactions with the ...