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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.
About the author
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.
