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| Introduction | |
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| Toward a Half Billion African Christians | |
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| An Epic Story | |
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| Out of Africa | |
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| The Pivotal Place of Africa on the Ancient Map | |
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| Two Rivers: The Nile and the Medjerda-Seedbed of Early Christian Thought | |
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| Affirming Oral and Written Traditions | |
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| Self-Effacement and the Recovery of Dignity | |
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| The Missing Link: The Early African Written Intellectual Tradition | |
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| Why Africa Has Seemed to the West to Lack Intellectual History | |
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| Interlude | |
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| The African Seedbed of Western Christianity | |
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| A Forgotten Story | |
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| Who Can Tell It? | |
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| Pilgrimage Sites Neglected | |
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| Under Sands: The Burial of Ancient Christian Texts and Basilicas | |
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| Seven Ways Africa Shaped the Christian Mind | |
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| How the Western Idea of a University Was Born in the Crucible of Africa | |
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| How Christian Exegesis of Scripture First Matured in Africa | |
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| How African Sources Shaped Early Christian Dogma | |
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| How Early Ecumenical Decision Making Followed African Conciliar Patterns | |
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| How the African Desert Gave Birth to Worldwide Monasticism | |
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| How Christian Neoplatonism Emerged in Africa | |
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| How Rhetorical and Dialectical Skills Were Honed in Africa for Europe's Use | |
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| Interlude: Harnack's Folly | |
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| Overview | |
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| Defining Africa | |
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| Establishing the Indigenous Depth of Early African Christianity | |
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| The Stereotyping of African Hellenism as Non-African | |
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| Scientific Inquiry into the Ethnicity of Early African Christian Writers | |
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| The Purveyors of Myopia | |
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| The African Seedbed Hypothesis Requires Textual Demonstration | |
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| A Case in Point: The Circuitous Path from Africa to Ireland to Europe and Then Back to Africa | |
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| A Caveat Against Afrocentric Exaggeration | |
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| One Faith, Two Africas | |
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| The Hazards of Bridge Building | |
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| The Challenge of Reconciliation of Black Africa and North Africa | |
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| The Roots of the Term Africa | |
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| Overcoming the Ingrained Lack of Awareness | |
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| Excommunicating the North | |
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| Arguing for African Unity | |
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| Defining "Early African Christianity" as a Descriptive Category of a Period of History | |
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| How African Is the Nile Valley? | |
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| Temptations | |
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| Tilted Historical Predispositions | |
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| The Catholic Limits of Afrocentrism | |
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| Ignoring African Sources | |
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| The Cost of Forgetfulness | |
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| Overlooking African Voices in Scripture | |
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| How Protestants Can Celebrate the Apostolic Charisma of the Copts | |
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| The Christian Ancestry of Africa | |
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| African Orthodox Recovery | |
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| The Opportunity for Retrieval | |
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| Surviving Modernity | |
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| The Steadiness of African Orthodoxy | |
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| The New African Ecumenism | |
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| Pruning Undisciplined Excesses | |
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| Burning Away the Acids of Moral Relativism | |
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| Orthodoxy: Global and African | |
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| Historic Christian Multiculturalism | |
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| Reframing Modern Ecumenics Within Classic Ecumenics | |
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| How the Blood of African Martyrs Became the Seed of European Christianity | |
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| Whether Classic Christian Teaching Is Defined by Power | |
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| How the History of African Martyrdom Shaped Christian Views of Universal History | |
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| Recalling the Exodus as an African Event | |
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| Amassing the Evidence | |
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| The Challenge of Young Africa | |
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| Right Remembering | |
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| Remembering the Scripture Rightly Through the Spirit | |
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| The Heart of African Orthodoxy | |
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| Transcending Material Worldliness | |
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| Avoiding Racial Definitions of Apostolic Truth | |
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| Seeking the Reconciliation of Christianity and Islam Through Historical Insight | |
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| The Risks Scholars Take | |
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| Conjointly Studying the History of Islam and Christianity | |
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| The Rigorous Language Requirements of African Research | |
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| Learning from Primary Sources | |
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| A Personal Challenge | |
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| The Challenges of Early African Research | |
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| Three Aims of Future Research | |
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| The Precedent | |
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| The Scope | |
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| The African Center of the International Consortium | |
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| The Consortium of Scholars | |
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| Assembling the Pieces of the Puzzle | |
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| Academic Leadership | |
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| Maximizing Digital Technologies | |
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| Publishing Outcomes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Literary Chronology of Christianity in Africa in the First Millennium | |
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| Bibliography | |