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This second- and third-century confessor advocated for a more metaphorical reading of Scripture, although legend has it that he took literally Jesus' injunction to "cut off" a body part that would cause a person to sin.
Who is Origen of Alexandria?
100
This woman is the founder of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.
Who is Mercy Oduyoye?
100
Peter Sarpong, a Catholic leader in Ghana, gave an example of inculturation when he changed the following ritual in his church.
What is pounding one's chest with one's fist?
100
Please name the early modern African kingdom in which this cross was created:
What is the Kingdom of the Kongo?
200
This theologian, based in Rome but born in Carthage, spent much of his career fighting so-called heresies, only to join the Montanist movement, considered by most in the majority church at the time to be a heretical group.
Who is Tertullian?
200
This former BBC journalist and current president of The School of Oriental and African Studies hosted the series, History of Africa.
Who is Zeinab Badawi?
200
The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in the documentary about his life and work, recommended looking into the eyes of one's _______.
Who is one's grandchild?
200
The following series of icons comes from this African nation:
What is Ethiopia?
300
This man, based in Alexandria, Egypt, was the key figure in the debate against Arianism (the idea that there was a time when God the Son did not exist).
Who is Athanasius of Alexandria?
300
This art historian has written extensively on indigenous Catholic crosses in the Kingdom of the Kongo.
Who is Cecile Fromont?
300
In part 2 of James Ault's documentary, African Christianity Rising, we saw a Christian spiritual leader and healer in Zimbabwe whose ancestors had occupied an analogous role in Shona indigenous religion. These ancestors worked as: _________.
N'angas (ngangas)
300
Here, we have a seventeenth-century painting of this woman, featuring in the Hebrew Bible, and also in the Ethiopian Christian self-understanding.
Who is the Queen of Sheba?
400
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which has ancient origins, was under the authority of this other church until 1971.
What is the Coptic Orthodox Church?
400
This Zimbabwean scholar has written about motherhood and ecology through the lens of theology.
Who is Isabel Mukonyora?
400
As we saw in African Christianity Rising, both mainline churches and African Initiated Churches on the continent feature exorcisms, frequently as part of ________ ministries.
What is deliverance?
400
This monolithic church is located in this town in Ethiopia (hint: it's also the name of the king associated with the church's construction).
What is Lalibela?
500
As Miaphysite Christians, the ancient Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox churches believe that Christ has is of ____ nature(s).
What is 1 nature?
500
The term "kandake," which appears in Acts 8, historically referred not to Ethiopian queens, but to women in an African nation that presently goes by this name.
What is Sudan?
500
As we saw in African Christianity Rising, missionaries from Africa sometimes travel to the West, including to this country.
What is the United States?
500
This Byzantine empress, though not African herself, famously sent Miaphysite missionaries to Nubia, hoping they would arrive before the Chalcedonian missionaries her husband sent to the same area.
Who is Theodora?