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#485 African Roots of the Church - Mike Aquilina

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The Origins of Christianity in North Africa

There are Jewish synagogues across North Africa. Historians think that's where it began as Christianity began in most places. Christians believe they can detect a Jewish style to the rhetoric of Tertullian, the great figure of the first generation of Christianity in Carthage. It would have been fairly cosmopolitan in North Africa, especially as I said in the ports like Carthage, the major ports.

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