Revised version of the author's dissertation--Claremont Graduate University, 2008.

Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth ce

The Silko inscription written in Greek and dated to the fifth century CE represents the genre of triumphant inscriptions, a genre that articulates the tradition

Thomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries,