Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 9, no. 1

Abstract

[African Christians from the DACB collection are showcased here as well. We also included a short section on the Gospel writer John Mark later in the issue. This excerpt from Oden’s 2011 book the African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition (InterVarsity Press.) also includes an important historiographical concept—that of African memory and how it contrasts with Western memory. This volume includes three resources made available by CEAC to JACB readers: the abovementioned lecture by Andrews Walls, a transcript of an interview with Lamin Sanneh, and a selection from We Believe, an Early African commentary on the Nicene Creed. This work, written by Christopher Hall and commissioned by Oden, illustrates the intellectual and spiritual wisdom of the early African church. These resources affirm and complement Oden’s historiographical legacy.]