T. Jack Thompson

T. Jack Thompson (16 February 1943 – 10 August 2017) was an Irish mission historian and scholar of African Christianity.

Biography

After studying history at Queen's University Belfast, Thompson taught history and religious education at Regent House School in Newtownards.^[1][2] Thompson and his wife Phyllis first travelled to Malawi as missionaries of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland in 1970. He later developed an academic interest in the study of missions history and Christianity in Africa.

Thompson returned to the United Kingdom and completed his PhD studies at the

After retiring from Edinburgh, he served a year as Vice-Chancellor of the

Thompson died of cancer on 10 August 2017 in the Marie Curie Hospice, Edinburgh, and services were held on 31 August 2017.[7]^[8][9]

Works

• Thompson, T. Jack (1995). Christianity in Northern Malaŵi: Donald Fraser's Missionary Methods and Ngoni Culture. Leiden: Brill.
  ISBN 90-04-10208-6
  .
• Thompson, T. Jack (2000). Touching the Heart: Xhosa Missionaries to Malawi, 1876-1888. Pretoria: University of South Africa.
  ISBN 978-1-86888-140-6
  .
• Thompson, T. Jack (2007). Ngoni, Xhosa and Scot: Religious and Cultural Interaction in Malawi. Zomba, Malawi: Kachere Series.
  ISBN 978-99908-87-17-4
  .
• Thompson, T. Jack (2012). Light on Darkness? Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.
  ISBN 978-0-8028-6524-3
  .