About the Contributor(s): Gwinyai H. Muzorewa is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of 'The Origins and Development of African Theology' and 'The Great Being: Yahweh, Chuku, Allah, God, Brahman.'

African Origins of Monotheism recasts an African knowledge of God in a new and original way. It aims to recapture concepts of God as originally reflected upon by pristine African religious thinkers. Muzorewa is seeking after the traditional African understandings of the Divine, which trace their origins back before the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Monotheism, he maintains, is the ancient view of God, ubiquitous across the continent of Africa; indeed, monotheism comes ""out of Africa."" The book challenges the way that the idea of God has been manipulated by Eurocentric agendas,...