How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity Audiobook (Free)

Africa has played a decisive part in the forming of Christian lifestyle from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity had been explored and realized in Africa before they were in Europe.

If this is so, how come Christianity so often perceived in Africa as a Western colonial import? How do Christians in North and sub-Saharan Africa, certainly, how do Christians across the world, rediscover and learn from this historic heritage?

Theologian Thomas C. Oden gives a family portrait that problems prevailing notions from the intellectual advancement of Christianity from its early origins to its contemporary expressions. The pattern, he suggests, isn’t from north to south from European countries to Africa, however the additional way around. He then makes an impassioned plea to uncover the hard data and research in depth the vital role that early African Christians performed in developing the present day college or university, maturing Christian exegesis of Scripture, shaping early Christian dogma, modeling conciliar patterns of ecumenical decision-making, rousing early monasticism, developing Neoplatonism, and refining rhetorical and dialectical skills.