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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781350320406
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 24/03/2022
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm

This handbook explores the central theme of Christian faith from various disciplinary approaches and different contexts of black experience in the United States. The central unifying theme is freedom; an important concept both in American culture and Christianity. African American theology represents a Christian understanding of God’s freedom and the good news of God’s call for all humankind to enter life—true human identity and moral responsibility—in genuine and just community.

Contributors to the volume argue that African American theology highlights how racism and other intersecting forms of oppression complicate the human predicament; and that their eradication requires an expansion of salvation to include the liberation of persons who lack full participation in society and enjoyment of the good (and goods) made possible by that society. The essays in this handbook employ the tools of biblical criticism, history, cultural and social analysis, religious studies, philosophy, and systematic theology, in order to explore and assess the nature and impact of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, immigration, and cultural and moral pluralism in America—as well as the intersections between African American and African diasporan religious thought and life.

List of Contributors
Acknowledgment

Introduction - Frederick L. Ware, Howard University School of Divinity, USA

Part I. Historical Investigations

1. The African American Struggle for Human Dignity in Chattel Slavery and Afterwards - Beverly Eileen Mitchell, Wesley Theological Seminary, USA
2. Re-evaluating Roots: Slavery as Source and Challenge for African American Theology - Alexis S.Wells-Oghoghomeh, Vanderbilt University, USA
3. Then and Now: Salvation, White Supremacy and Black Agency in the Aftermath of the White Supremacy Campaign of 1898 and Presidential Election of 2016 - Sharon J. Grant, Hood Theological Seminary, USA
4. Engaging History Theologically: Early Afro-Pentecostal Interracial Communities as Sites of Emancipatory Politics - David D. Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary, USA
5. “Peace Be Still”: James Cleveland and the Paradox of Peace in the Civil Rights Movement - Johari Jabir, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
6. African American Evangelicals - Soong-Chan Rah, North Park Theological Seminary, USA
7. The Classroom and the Pulpit of the Public Theologian: A Brief Survey of Black Faith Tradition(s) - Adam L. Bond, Virginia Union University, USA


Part II. Theological Method and Construction

8. The Hebrew Bible and Black Theology: Fresh Hermeneutical Considerations for Liberation Theologies and Situating the Teachings of Jesus - Harold V. Bennett, Interdenominational Theological Center/Morehouse College, USA
9. From Ideology to Theology: Toward a More Liberating Doctrine of Revelation - Harry H. Singleton, Benedict College, USA
10. The Reality of God and Racism: Shifting Paradigms in Race, Culture, and the Church - Henry J. Young, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary/Hood Theological Seminary, USA
11. Is Racism in America a Functional Refutation of Classical Philosophical View of Understanding as Pertaining to Universal Concepts? - Cyril Orji, University of Dayton in Ohio, USA
12. Theological Considerations of Being Human while Black - Antonia Michelle Daymond, Independent Scholar, USA
13. Pneumatology and Contemporary Theological Discourse - William C. Turner, Duke University Divinity School, USA
14. Mad with Supernatural Joy: On Representations of Pentecostalism in the Black Religious Imagination - Eric Lewis Williams, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture, USA
15. Baptism and Holy Communion: Affirming that Black Lives Matter - Brad R. Braxton, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture/The Open Church of Maryland, USA
16. God and Time: Exploring Black Notions of Prophetic and Apocalyptic Eschatology - Lisa Marie Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
17. Methodological Development in African American Theology: The Influence of Past Historical Periods upon Contemporary Black and Womanist Thought - Walter R. Strickland II, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA
18. The Ethics, Politics, and Civic Engagement of African American Theological Production - James S. Logan, Earlham College, USA
19. The Church and the Tangent: Everybody’s Protest Theology - Matthew V. Johnson, Mount Moriah Baptist Church/Social Justice Commission of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, USA

Part III. Church, Ministry, and Leadership

20. Prophetic Preaching and Theological Reflection - Kenyatta R. Gilbert, Howard University School of Divinity, USA
21. Plenty Good Room Revisited: The Quest for a Radically Inclusive Twenty-first-century Black Church - Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA
22. Black Ecumenism and the Ecumenical Movement: Four Perspectives - Beverly J. Goines, Center for the Study of African American Religious Life at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture, USA
23. Receiving the Body as Gift: African American Christian Ethics and the Harlem Renaissance as a Theo-Ethical Intervention - Reggie L. Williams, McCormick Theological Seminary, USA
24. Theology, Praxis, and Leadership: Paradigm for Black Churches - Forrest E. Harris, American Baptist College/Vanderbilt University Divinity School, USA
25. Black Church Pastors as Chief Executive Officers: A Theoretical Reframing of the Debate - Nimi Wariboko, Boston University School of Theology, USA

Part IV. Dialogues

26. Black Theology and Black Humanism - Duane T. Loynes, Sr., Rhodes College, USA
27. White Feminist Theologies and Black Womanist Theologies - Karen Teel, University of San Diego, USA.
28. Jewish Theology and African American Theology in Dialogue - Kurt Buhring, Saint Mary’s College, USA
29. Black Theology and the Care of the Soul, Mind and Body: Reading African American Theology from a Black British Perspective - Delroy Hall, Region 5 of the Church of God of Prophecy, UK
30. African American Theology and Her Siblings in the Caribbean Diaspora: Toward a Theology of a Plurality of Praxis in the Black Atlantic World - Delroy A. Reid-Salmon, Grace Baptist Chapel, USA and University of Oxford, UK
31. Metals and Movens of Colored Television: The Spirit is a Bone: A Response to Marla F. Frederick’s Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global - Nimi Wariboko, Boston University School of Theology, USA
32. Epilogue - Eric Lewis Williams, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture, USA and Antonia Michelle Daymond, Independant Scholar, USA


Biblical Citations Index
Subject Index

Associate Professor Frederick L. Ware (Howard University School of Theology, USA), Dr Antonia Michelle Daymond (Independent Scholar, USA), Dr Eric Lewis Williams (Harvard University, USA)

Antonia Michelle Daymond, an Independent Scholar in the USA, is a constructive Christian theologian working in the areas of contemporary models of theology as well as systematic and philosophical theology.

Frederick L. Ware is Associate Professor of Theology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Howard University School of Divinity, Washington DC, USA.

Eric Lewis Williams is Curator of Religion, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History and Culture, USA.

The book will serve well as a text for introductory theology courses and for advanced study of African American theology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE * This text is a bold statement detailing the theological legacy of a people. African Americans have made an indelible mark on the pages of Christian theology and this fine text explores this ongoing development, covering all the major themes and disciplines in an exemplary manner. This is a must read! * ANTHONY G. REDDIE, THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA *

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