How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind:… by Dr. Thomas C. Oden, PhD · Audiobook preview

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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Authored by Dr. Thomas C. Oden, PhD
Narrated by Tom Parks
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and understood in Africa before they were in Europe. If this is so, why is Christianity so often perceived in Africa as a Western colonial import? How can Christians in Northern and sub-Saharan Africa, indeed, how can Christians throughout the world, rediscover and learn from this ancient heritage? Theologian Thomas C. Oden offers a portrait that challenges prevailing notions of the intellectual development of Christianity from its early roots to its modern expressions. The pattern, he suggests, is not from north to south from Europe to Africa, but the other way around. He then makes an impassioned plea to uncover the hard data and study in depth the vital role that early African Christians played in developing the modern university, maturing Christian exegesis of Scripture, shaping early Christian dogma, modeling conciliar patterns of ecumenical decision-making, stimulating early monasticism, developing Neoplatonism, and refining rhetorical and dialectical skills.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas C. Oden (1931-2016) was the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author of several books, including Classic Christianity.
Since recording his first book for the Kansas Audio Reader Network in 1985, Tom Parks has enjoyed giving voice to stories. He has been nominated for Audie Awards and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, and reviewers have described his performances as "conversational," "energetic," and "sincere."
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: August 20, 2019
ISBN: 9781515944188
Duration: 7 hr, 9 min
Genres: Religion / Christian Church / General, Religion / Christian Church / History, Religion / Christianity / General, Religion / Christianity / History, Religion / General