David D. Daniels, professor of world Christianity at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, writes, "In a sense, the Church of Ethiopia was the “'dream' for Luther, a true forerunner of Protestantism."
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"But Luther esteemed the Church of Ethiopia because he thought Ethiopia was the first nation in history to convert to Christianity.
"Located far beyond the orbit of the Roman Catholic Church, this first Christian kingdom, according to Luther, served as an older, wiser, black sibling to the white Christian kingdoms of Europe....
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