This history, though less familiar to many, reveals rich theological currents flowing through early ... Christian notion of saints and spiritual intercessors at times dovetailed with the African ...

Influential African Thinkers The early Christian church prominently featured ... Thornton, John K. The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706.

Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was ...

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of ... that is, the Christianity of Rome was different than Christianity in North Africa in certain ways, and that was different ...