Claims of supernatural activity are not simply the domain of the modern non-Western world. They appeared frequently in early Christian sources that the West traditionally counted in its cultural heritage, in church history, including but not limited to the West, from early to current times.[3] Egypt, Carthage, Syria, and other early Christian spheres of influence in Africa and Asia were not Western, geographically or culturally, but the entire church draws on such sources as part of its general Christian heritage.[4]
