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Feb 6, 2018 · Today, Africa is a thriving hub of Christianity. The Africa Study Bible (Oasis International/Tyndale House, 2017) (@africastudybibl) is the first study Bible created to speak to African hearts and lives. Here are two examples of study notes in the book of Genesis from this Bible: The Personhood of the African Woman
Feb 21, 2024 · The Blessing of Africa: The Bible and African Christianity by Keith Augustus Burton Traces the story of biblical Africa. Coming to the modern era, he examines the achievements of African Christianity and visionary efforts to adapt and reclaim Christianity for the African context.
Jun 9, 2015 · The story in sub-Saharan or tropical Africa is quite different, with the Bible being a relatively recent arrival. Throughout the waves of imperialism and mission the Bible was present, playing a variety of roles, from iconic object of power to political weapon of struggle.
- Gerald West
- 2015
May 6, 2019 · The Africans who were brought to America from 1619 onward carried with them diverse religious traditions. About 20 percent to 30 percent were Muslim, Pierce said. Some had learned of...
- Ebed-Melech
- Simon of Cyrene
- Believers from Libya and Cyrene
- African Missionaries to Antioch
For example, in Jeremiah 38:4–13, you have an incident where King Zedekiah—just before the fall of Jerusalem—got discouraged with Jeremiah’s prophecies. He accused Jeremiah of discouraging people from fighting against the Babylonians. He was just about accusing Jeremiah of treason, as it were. So, he told some of his henchmen, his posse—whatever yo...
There are other people who played significant roles in Scripture, but there are instances where Africans did play important parts. Another example of the coming of the gospel to Africa: Africa proved to be fertile ground when the gospel first came. It’s interesting that—a lot of people don’t realize this, but the last man in Luke 23:26, Jesus is ca...
In Acts 2:5–12, you have the situation where—this is, of course, the day of Pentecost, and all of these nations were gathered in Jerusalem, and among those nations were people from Libya and Cyrene, and they all heard the gospel, and they all began to understand the gospel in their own languages. Again, Africans were not strangers to the times of t...
In Acts 11—now, this is after the time of persecution that has broken out—Stephen was a very outstanding deacon, and one of the things that was happening in those days is that the Jewish culture, the Hebrew culture was the dominant culture, and the Greek culture was the subdominant culture in the land of Israel. What happened was that some of these...
Prior to the translation of the Bible in Africa, Africans were already engaging with the Bible, initially as an iconic object of power and then as an aural object. In the first section of this article I attempt to detect elements of the early reception of the Bible among the BaTlhaping people.
Several African Christians influenced the early development of Christianity and shaped its doctrines, including Tertullian, Perpetua, Felicity, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Cyprian, Athanasius and Augustine of Hippo.
