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HOW AFRICA SHAPED THE CHRISTIAN MIND

HOW AFRICA SHAPED THE CHRISTIAN MIND. What is your guess as to how Christianity got to Africa? What do most Western Christians think?. What did the characters in the biblical story look like? What do people imagine they looked like?.

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HOW AFRICA SHAPED THE CHRISTIAN MIND

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  1. HOW AFRICA SHAPED THE CHRISTIAN MIND

  2. What is your guess as to how Christianity got to Africa? What do most Western Christians think?

  3. What did the characters in the biblical story look like? What do people imagine they looked like?

  4. When we say “cradle of Christianity” where do most people think that was?

  5. Seven Ways Africa Shaped the Christian Mind

  6. 1. The Western idea of a University was Born in the Crucible of Africa

  7. It is our responsibility to recover our own Christian history accurately, so we are not subject to what secular propagandists would have us believe.

  8. II. Exegesis of Scripture First Matured in Africa

  9. III. African Sources Shaped Early Christian Dogma

  10. IV. Early Ecumenical Decision-Making Followed African Conciliar Patterns

  11. V. The African Desert Gave Birth to Worldwide Monasticism

  12. VI. Christian Neoplatonism Emerged in Africa VII. Rhetorical and Dialectical Skills were Honed in Africa for Europe’s use

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