The Rebirth of African Orthodoxy

by Thomas Oden

  • Year 2016
  • Type Book
  • Genre church history
  • Tradition Evangelical
  • Original language English

For For African Christians, and those who teach them, wanting to recover the early African church's teaching; best read after How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

His last book: a call to African Christians to recover the early African church's orthodoxy, laid out as ten seminars.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 2 of 5
  • Sociological 4 of 5
  • Historical 4 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Published by Abingdon Press in April 2016, a book of about 176 pages and Oden's last. It reworks his The Rebirth of Orthodoxy: Signs of New Life in Christianity (2002), which addressed Western readers, for African Christians. A review in Themelios notes that the title does not distinguish African orthodoxy from orthodoxy, since for Oden orthodoxy is essentially African, the tradition that arose mainly in North Africa in the first five centuries, and that the book turns his call to African scholars into a practical curriculum of ten seminars. It belongs with his series on early African Christianity.

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