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hristianity? We and our students have stood in the middle of this question on an experiential level. an Christians in the poorest of slums as well as in a parish in a professional-class neighborhood, St. Jude. —though never obligated to. By yesterday, as I found myself singing and dancing with some Pentecostals, nvolved in “participant anthropology.” There was a lot of shaking of hands and hugging on this trip. Christianity steadily over the past century and a half. They have done so in their own way, carrying some with them into their new faith. Thus, African Christianity has a different look from the Church that we
uration,” as African theologians have called the process, with Nigerian Jesuit Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, in an African Pot. For me, our discussion with Orobator was among the finest moments of our trip, something I have always believed about faith from both a scholarly and personal perspective: ordinary hat they will. Forced conversion is an oxymoron. Faith is built from the bottom up.—Professor Rick Warner