In the above short clip we have a clip from a famous professor who was orthodox and among the more conservative theologians of the 20th century and early 21st, who credits Africa with the foundation of Western theology.

Wouldn’t it be great to see the progression from Africa to the West in the early church to pivot from its captivity to the West back to Africa for more replenishment? But in fact, this is already happening. Sadly, we call this transition “contextual theology,” denying the context of Western Christianity as having emerged in the context of empire and abuse.

The best book I can recommend to this effect is Emerging Theologies of the Global South, which describes how Christianity has its origins in the Global South, then it migrated towards Europe and America without disappearing from West Asia, and now Christianity is in the Global South more than in the West. Here is my book review of Emerging Theologies of the Global South in the Wesleyan Theological Journal.