The Pastor’s Study – Autumn 2025 (Vol. 5.4)

This issue of The Pastor’s Study is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Byang H. Kato who died in a tragic drowning accident fifty years ago this year, December 1975. Kato was the preeminent theologian of Sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1970s, and has been called the father of Evangelical theological in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The guest editorial from Dr. Musa Gaiya of the University of Jos, is an appeal for African biographical writing.

Included in this issue also is an account of Kato’s life (pages 6–9) and a deeper look into his Christian character and spiritual formation (pages 14–15). We include some of Kato’s writing, in his ten-point proposal for safeguarding biblical Christianity in Africa (pages 18–19), as well as a centre-page pull-out photo montage of the founder of Evangelical Theology in Africa.

We have also included an introduction to African traditional religions by pastor Ken Banda (pages 16–17) and a history of Christianity in Nigeria, Kato’s home country, by Dr. Paul Todd. We are grateful again to Ligonier Ministries for a devotional from Dr. R. C. Sproul (page 20).

Editorial: Christian biographical historiography in Africa (Dr. Musa A.B. Gaiya)

The Life of Byang Kato

A brief history of the church in Nigeria (Dr. Paul Todd)

The spiritual formation of a man of God

Introduction to African traditional religion (Ken Banda)

Kato’s ten-point proposal for safeguarding biblical Christianity in Africa

Looking into the face of Christ (Dr. R.C. Sproul)