Early Christianity in Africa: Dr. Vince Bantu

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dr. Vince Bantu (B.A. Wheaton, M.Div. Gordon-Conwell, Th.M. Princeton Theological Seminary, M.A. and Ph.D. in Semitic and Egyptian Languages from The Catholic University) is Assistant Professor of Church History and Black Church Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of several books including Multitude of All Peoples: Exploring the Multiethnic Roots of Christianity. Dr. Bantu is an expert in the early growth of Christianity into Africa, which is the topic of our conversation. There are so many vibrant Christian leaders in Africa that the western church has simply denounced or ignored. This was a fascinating conversation! -- Seminary Now has become one of the go-to resources for pastors, church leaders, and lay Christians who are serious about ongoing learning in an increasingly complex world. Seminary Now’s 80+ streaming courses and 10+ live online classes allow learners to have access to world-class scholarship and cutting-edge ministry training anywhere, anytime. Visit seminarynow.com. And, for a limited time, use discount code TITR to save 30%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends welcome back to another episode of Theology and Ra. My guest today is absolutely fascinating.
0:05.7	Dr Vince Bantu. This dude has a extremely long CV curriculum vitae. He has a BA in theology from Wheaton College,
0:16.3	M. D. D. D. A. A. A. in a and Seminary. T. M. A. and Semitic and
0:21.4	Egyptian languages from the Catholic University and a PhD in Semitic and Egyptian languages from also the Catholic University.
0:31.4	He currently serves as assistant professor of
0:33.2	Church history and Black Church Studies at Fuller Seminary. Now it sounds like
0:37.6	this dude is just nothing but just a hyper-academic but as he explains at the beginning he pursued all of these
0:46.1	academic credentials out of a passion for evangelism apologetics and mission. I was blown it with this conversation. This dude, Dr Bantu, is an absolute
0:57.6	master when it comes to the growth of Christianity, especially in the early, the first few centuries of the church,
1:05.7	how there is massive growth of the church, of the gospel in Africa, both kind of northern Africa and Subsahara Africa,
1:13.0	both kind of Northern Africa and Sub-Sahara Africa,
1:14.0	and he is an expert at all of this.
1:16.0	And I was just, you know, one of those conversations
1:19.0	where your learning curve is just like a hockey stick
1:21.0	because you have just no knowledge of anything
1:23.6	anybody's talking about. I was blown away at how much I learned in this
1:28.2	conversation and I'm sure you will too. So I'm so I'm super excited for you to Gage's
1:33.2	conversation so please welcome to the show the one and only Dr.
1:36.9	Vince Bantu.
1:46.9	Dude, your your scholarly interests are pretty unique.
1:55.0	So my first question is, you did a PhD in Semitic and Egyptian languages.
2:01.0	What?
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