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#485 African Roots of the Church - Mike Aquilina

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Mike Aquilina, author of Africa and the Early Church, explains the African roots of much of what we now take for granted in Christianity. His work reminds us of an age when Christianity spread quickly in all directions so that before the Muslim invasions, a fruitful Christianity had taken root in Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Eritrea, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.   …

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Hello and welcome to Focus. The Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding and defending

0:11.2

your Catholic faith. One of the greats on the show today, when you get a chance to talk with

0:15.3

Mike Aquilini, you should take that chance and we're delighted that he is here with us. The author

0:19.5

of just dozens and dozens of books and I'm quite serious, dozens and dozens of books. Also,

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the executive vice president of the St. Paul Center and a renowned speaker and you know,

0:33.4

Mike Aquilini has been around for a long time. He's got a new book called Africa in the early

0:37.4

church. The almost forgotten roots of Catholic Christianity and it's amazing how many of us

0:44.8

in our defense of the Catholic church and our desire to share the Catholic church. We don't know

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the story of African Christianity. So a very welcome addition to the literature that you might

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read to prepare yourself to be a defender and shareer of the Catholic faith. Mike Aquilini,

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thanks so much for being here with us. Hey, thanks for having me. I'm honored, Si.

1:05.9

Really a beautiful book. You start right off with a little comment about race because to the

1:14.6

ancient person, you cannot talk about Africa today without it involving all kinds of racial

1:22.1

implications and history and all that, but the ancient person did not think about Africa in racial

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terms. Yeah, we don't we don't find any evidence of that. We see that that that ancient people's

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like all people are aware of human differences like skin color, but they didn't they didn't think

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of that as a reason for thinking more or less of a person. It's it's just something they knew

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noted in passing. Africa was an important part of the ancient world, the world in which Christianity

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first emerged. The world our savior came to redeem and and and it was just another part of that

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world, but it became an important part in the history of emerging Christianity. There's kind of

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three parts to that world, the way that the ancient person thought of it. The Mediterranean as

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you point out in the book, the kind of center of the earth with Africa and Asia and Europe

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