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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity QUOTES

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity QUOTES

1 " Cut Africa out of the Bible and Christian memory, and you have misplaced many pivotal scenes of salvation history. It is the story of the children of Abraham in Africa; Joseph in Africa; Moses in Africa; Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Africa; and shortly thereafter Mark and Perpetua and Athanasius and Augustine in Africa. "

― Thomas C. Oden , How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity

2 " The early Christian historical memory was formed on three land masses -Asia, Africa and Europe. In this respect it does not differ
from textually recorded human history, which formed in the conjunction between these three great spaces. Only three, not seven. "

― Thomas C. Oden , How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity