The Blessing of Africa: The Bible and African Christianity

by Burton, Keith Augustus

• ISBN13: 9780830827626
• ISBN10: 0830827625
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-13
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Africa will soon have the highest concentration of Christians in the world. But African Christianity has had a long and conflicted history. Even today, modern misinterpretations of Scripture argue for God's curse upon the dark-skinned peoples of Africa. Scholars continue to debate Afrocentric readings of Scripture and church history.

Author Biography

Keith Augustus Burton served as a professor of theology at Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
The Land of Ham: Defining Biblical Africa	p. 17
The Table of Nations in Genesis 10	p. 21
Defining the Territory of Cush	p. 30
Defining the Territory of Misrayim	p. 41
Defining the Territory of Canaan	p. 47
Family Reunion: Africans in the Bible	p. 57
Identifying the Africans in Cush	p. 61
Identifying the Africans in Misrayim	p. 73
Identifying the Africans in Canaan	p. 91
Growing Pains: The Bible in Emerging African Christianity	p. 111
The Development of Christianity in Palestine	p. 115
The Development of Christianity in Egypt and North Africa	p. 123
The Development of Christianity in Arabia and Ethiopia	p. 135
Total Eclipse: Islam's Distortion of the Biblical Message	p. 145
The Influence of the Bible on the Qur'an	p. 149
The Growth of Islam in Biblical Africa	p. 156
Hostile Takeover: Europe's Manipulation of the Biblical Message	p. 173
The European Crusade Against Islam	p. 175
The Struggle for Control in the Ethiopian Church	p. 186
Mission and Colonization in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 396
Free at Last: The Bible and African Liberation	p. 207
The Decline of Christianity in Islamic Africa	p. 209
The Shortcomings of Ethiopian Christianity	p. 217
The Impact of Christianity on Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 227
Conclusion	p. 245
Descendants of Ham and the Modern Locations of Their Assigned Territories and Nations	p. 250
Shared Blessings: Hamo-Semitic Africans in the Land of Cush	p. 252
Works Cited	p. 263
Author and Names Index	p. 280
Subject Index	p. 283
Scripture Index	p. 290
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