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Reviews REVIEWS HILLMAN, Eugene, Polygamy reconsidered. African plural marriage and the Christian churches. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books 1975. 266 pp. $ 15.00. Eugene Hillman is a Roman Catholic Missionary with pastoral and research experience in Africa, particularly among the Masai people of Tanzania. His missiological writings have generated controversy, but they have also been a stimulus to deeper and more cogent thinking about missionary objectives. This book is no exception. When Hillman first made his plea for the toleration of polygamy by Christians in i967 it caused no mean stir in East Africa and elsewhere, now his views have been expanded in to a book which was originally a thesis presented to Ottawa University, and set before a much wider reading public. Hillman is basically right. By and large Christians have been narrow- minded on the subject of polygamy, and the theology of monogamous marriage has developed out of the limited experience of the western world. Theological arguments and literalistic interpretations of the Bible have mostly been a posteriori arguments and interpretations. In a masterly appendix Hillman demonstrates very easily that the Council of Trent's condemnation of polygamy was a condemnation of poly- gamous exceptions in an otherwise monogamous http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

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Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 8 (2): 149 – Jan 1, 1976
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© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4200
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1570-0666
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10.1163/157006676X00138
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REVIEWS HILLMAN, Eugene, Polygamy reconsidered. African plural marriage and the Christian churches. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books 1975. 266 pp. $ 15.00. Eugene Hillman is a Roman Catholic Missionary with pastoral and research experience in Africa, particularly among the Masai people of Tanzania. His missiological writings have generated controversy, but they have also been a stimulus to deeper and more cogent thinking about missionary objectives. This book is no exception. When Hillman first made his plea for the toleration of polygamy by Christians in i967 it caused no mean stir in East Africa and elsewhere, now his views have been expanded in to a book which was originally a thesis presented to Ottawa University, and set before a much wider reading public. Hillman is basically right. By and large Christians have been narrow- minded on the subject of polygamy, and the theology of monogamous marriage has developed out of the limited experience of the western world. Theological arguments and literalistic interpretations of the Bible have mostly been a posteriori arguments and interpretations. In a masterly appendix Hillman demonstrates very easily that the Council of Trent's condemnation of polygamy was a condemnation of poly- gamous exceptions in an otherwise monogamous

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