How Alexandria, Egypt Shaped the Christian Mind ?
Comments: “On that day, there will be5cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of Hosts.1of these will be called the city of the sun (Heliopolis).” Isaiah 19:18 Introductory Epilogue: One nation in Africa lead by the great city of Alexandria has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy that outweighs all other nations together. The Church of Alexandria, where the Hebrew bible translation started in the third century BC, into the Greek Septuagint, became and still is the ecclesiastical holy Scripture of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. All fundamental Christian doctrines and the almost all formative intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and developed in Egypt, which controlled provinces west to today’s Tunisia, together of few Latin centers in Northern Africa before they moved into Italia and the Gaul of the archaic Roman Empire. Oden Tells the Story: Here, Oden reminds Christians
