HOW AFRICA SHAPED THE CHRISTIAN MIND
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind is a book by Thomas C. Oden that argues that early Christian thought and culture was influenced by African Christianity more than by European Christianity12. The book identifies seven ways that African Christianity informed Western and world Christianity, such as the concept of the university, the exegesis of Scripture, the development of doctrine, and the rise of monasticism13. The book challenges the commonly assumed belief that Christianity is a European transplant on African shores and asserts the indigenous nature of African Christianity that developed along the Nile and Medjerda valleys and extended through Ethiopia and Sudan145. The book is a major resource and a welcome corrective for the history of the Christian movement and its African roots345.
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind is a book by Thomas C. Oden that argues that early Christian thought and culture was influenced by African Christianity more than by European Christianity12. The book identifies seven ways that African Christianity informed Western and world Christianity, such as the concept of the university, the exegesis of Scripture, the development of doctrine, and the rise of monasticism13. The book challenges the commonly assumed belief that Christianity is a European transplant on African shores and asserts the indigenous nature of African Christianity that developed along the Nile and Medjerda valleys and extended through Ethiopia and Sudan145. The book is a major resource and a welcome corrective for the history of the Christian movement and its African roots345.
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