African Christianity
Normally, I read through Credenda Agenda, but one issue (Summer 2008) got out of the normal cue and so I just got around to starting it this weekend. Peter Leithart’s article on the rise of Christianity in Africa is really worth thinking through. Here is a link to it:
It talks of both the horrors of African life and the resiliency of the faith now taking root in Africa—a faith that is increasingly becoming the teacher rather than the student of Northern European Christianity. While American churches struggle to find a way around what the Bible says, African Christians tend to embrace it. Listen to this description of Kwame Bediako, an African theologian, on what African Christianity should mean, “the Church must manifest the victory of the Cross in the concrete realities of her existence in society.” Wow! What a hopeful and challenging article!
