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T. C. Oden, Downers Grove, 2011IVP Academic, 332 p.http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3943Résumé :Buried for more than a millennium beneath sand and the erosions of time are the remnants of a vital, formative Christian presence in Libya. From about A.D. 68 till the Muslim conquest of A.D. 643, Libya housed a vibrant, creative Christian community that contributed to the shape of the faith even as we know it today. By the mid-190s A.D., Leptis Magna could claim favorite sons as the Roman pontiff, Victor the African, and as the Roman emperor, Septimius Severus.A rich and energetic community produced a wide variety of key players from early martyrs to great thinkers to archheretics. Tertullian, the great theologian, and Sabellius, the heretic, are relatively well known. Less well known are the martyrs Wasilla and Theodore and the great poet-philosopher-bishop Synesius of Cyrene.Uncovering this North African tradition and offering it to a wide reading audience is the task that Tom Oden sets for himself in this fascinating tour de force. The book, originating as lectures delivered at the Islamic Da'wa University in Tripoli in 2008 and later expanded as the W. H. Griffith Thomas Lectures in 2009 at Dallas Theological Seminary, has been expanded and refined to provide additional insights and references, surveying the texts, architecture and landmarks of this important period of Christian history. It also serves as a valuable companion to Oden's earlier offerings in How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind and The African Memory of Mark.Table des matières :AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of Illustrations1. A Buried History Awaiting Discovery2. Libya in Biblical Times3. The Cyrene-Jerusalem Link : Early Christianity in Cyrene4. The Cyrenaic Core of Early Christian Leadership5. Libyan Voices in Christian History Before Nicaea6. Synesius of Cyrene7. Five Centuries of Christian Presence in Cyrene8. The Early Christian Presence in Eastern Libya9. Early Christian Presence in Tripolitania10. Why Libya ?Conclusion : The Libyan Contribution to ChristianityRegistry of Known Locations of Early Christianity in LibyaBibliography Subject IndexAncient Texts IndexScripture IndexImage Credits