Dear Friends,
Greetings!
I am currently reading the book How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity by Thomas C. Oden.
The book is very powerful in terms of recognizing that Christianity is most certainly not an imported religion in Africa but instead has been in Africa since before 50 A.D. (C.E.). I sometimes think that people believe African Christianity is only a missionary religion because of the Arab culture in Egypt and North Sudan and other north African countries. They were likely African in nature until the mid 600’s when Islam swept into Northern Africa and changed the ethnicity and the culture of that part of the continent. When we look at the first centuries of Africa and Christianity we see a different composition.
Blessings,
Debbie
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