On World Magazine's daily webzine World on the Web you can find a brief review/interview of Thomas Oden's new book How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind.

The Western church needs to begin a discussion of our perceived dominance of Christianity as a foundational myth, something that Oden argues in this book, as well as can be seen in the purposeful denial of Eastern Christianity in discussions until recently.  The vast majority of "Christian" textbooks published in America deny that the Eastern church or the more recent Global South churches exist on a intellectual, philosophical, and theological level.  The Western church perceives itself as the light on the hill bathing all other christianities with its orthodox radiance, yet some scholars are beginning to admit that this simply isn't true.

I think a gradual introduction of post-colonial theory into church history discussions is much needed.