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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 On 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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Refraining 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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Appendix: 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 | |