Orthodox Christianity in East Africa

The Church founded by Christ, the Faith given to the Apostles, has been made truly accessible to all people to understand in their own terms. I rejoice that there can be a diversity of expressions proclaiming the Ancient Faith guided by the Holy Spirit as it was and always shall be.

-Steve

(I had heard about the Orthodox Christians of Tanzania today on Ancient Faith Radio: The Illumined Heart and I found this on youtube. Just as I can accept that the "Oriental" and "Eastern" Churches can proclaim the same Faith in a diversity of expressions I can only imagine the infinite possibilities for the Church in places yet untouched)

African Roots of Christianity

"Indeed, many of the shapers of Christian orthodoxy were African. Names like Augustine, Tertullian, Origen, Clement, Anthony, and Pachomius were familiar from my undergraduate church history survey. But my professor had not presented them as Africans ministering and teaching in the context of an African culture.
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The story of Christian theology has been told from a European perspective. Oden wants to tell that story differently: classical Christian theology was heavily shaped by Africans. The language we use to worship the Trinity, the received definitions of the Christ's two natures, the early church's methods for restoring repentant sinners, the basic patterns of monastic life, our fundamental approach to biblical interpretation, the church's devotion to its martyrs—all of these things have their roots in African theological debate, African prayer, and African biblical study."
-David Neff, Christianity Today (full article)