Through the 15th century and then with the modern missionary movement, I mean by the time the

modern missionary movement had come to Africa, Christianity had already been there and been wiped out because of

syncretism, paganism, but it would thrive and then die down and then thrive again and

then die down. And thrive again and then die down.

And so when the modern missionaries came in the 18th and the 19th centuries,

they thought they were coming to, you know, fresh ground,

but they weren't.

They had already been settlements in places like the coast of Kenya and in West Africa,

where slaves who had been returned had already put up Christian communities.

And so that's a lot of history that's not even taught in our seminaries. applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church. This is Whitehorse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology

and culture. Hello and welcome to another edition of White Horse In. It's exciting to be able to talk with Adam Smith.

You've heard his voice before as we've been informing you

about what we're doing with this

program called Theogloble.

And nuclear to this project is Elizabeth

Mborough, who is with us as a special guest.

She is the regional coordinator of Langham Literature in Africa, an associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Africa International University in Kenya.

She's also the New Testament editor for the revised Africa Bible commentary and she has

written African hermeneutics. We're going to talk a little bit about that book.

And she is the co-editor with Justin Holcomb and myself

of the upcoming Theoglobel,

theology together, volume on Prophet Priest and King,

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