One of the important contemporary but unexplored themes for Christianity in Africa today is its ongoing connections to a broader Christian and non-Christian world. This is quite apart from the idea of mission connections or reverse mission from Africa to elsewhere, or any mission-themed global connection. In much existing scholarship, Africa seems to only have recently been drawn into the orbit of global relations, but there is a long-standing relationship with the wider world, people linking from different regions at different times for varied reasons. This volume explores the theme of two thousand years of connections--and how the global sensibility has shaped Christianity on the continent for two thousand years.
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978-1-6667-2660-2 (9781666726602)
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Wanjiru M. Gitau is assistant professor of practical theology and world Christianity at Palm Beach Atlantic University and is author of Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered: Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective (2018); The Kingdom of God in Africa: A History of African Christianity (with Mark Shaw, 2020); and Becoming Cosmopolitan: Unfolding Two Centuries of Mission at VTS (with Bill Sachs, 2023).
Mark A. Lamport has been a professor for nearly forty years at theological schools in the United States and Europe. He is coauthor of Nurturing Faith: A Practical Theology for Educating Christians (2021), coeditor of the seven-book series The Global Story of Christianity, and coeditor of Emerging Theologies from the Global South (2023). He works from Grand Rapids and Fort Myers.
