{"id":265,"date":"2017-11-29T23:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T23:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/?p=265"},"modified":"2018-11-14T20:56:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T20:56:45","slug":"t-jack-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/2017\/11\/29\/t-jack-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"T. Jack Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JackThompson\"<\/a>History of Christianity in Africa<\/h4>\n

Born in Belfast in 1943, T. Jack Thompson read modern history at Queen’s University before going to Edinburgh for postgraduate studies and a Ph.D. He worked as a missionary in Malawi for 13 years, after which he went to work as a lecturer at Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. In 1993 he became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh where he taught African Christianity and eventually became the director of the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World.<\/p>\n

An superb historian, Thompson wrote 3 books on Christianity in Malawi (Christianity in Northern Malawi: Donald Fraser’s Missionary Methods and Ngoni Culture,<\/em> 1995; Touching the heart: Xhosa Missionaries to Malawi, 1876-1888, <\/em>2000; and Ngoni, Xhosa and Scot: Religious and Cultural Interactions in Malawi, <\/em>2007). His last volume was a particularly well-received volume entitled Light on Darkness: Missionary Photography in Africa in the 19th C and early 20th C <\/em>(2012).<\/p>\n

Thompson passed away in August 2017. Two years before, he contacted me to see whether he could apply for a Queen’s Higher Doctorate.\u00a0 This was possible and we discussed procedure. Somehow Jack did not follow it up. I presume his health got in the way. It was a great pity for this would have been a perfect closing act for a unique student from Queen’s who went on to have a distinguished academic career “across the water” in the history of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History of Christianity in Africa Born in Belfast in 1943, T. Jack Thompson read modern history at Queen’s University before going to Edinburgh for postgraduate studies and a Ph.D. He worked as a missionary in Malawi for 13 years, after which he went to work as a lecturer at Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. In 1993 … Continue reading T. Jack Thompson<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-qub-africa","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93ki-4h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}