Roots Of A Black Future

Author : J. Deotis Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439122600

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Roots of a Black Future by J. Deotis Roberts Pdf

A vital look at the nature, destiny, and mission of the black family and the black church today. Roots of a Black Future: Family and Church seeks to continue a discussion revolving around families and church in the black experience, both to their symbolic and actual relationship. It explores the deeper meaning of church as family and family as church. Grounded in the context of black families and churches within American society, this book also acknowledges that black communities are affected by society as a whole, a society largely controlled by the white community. But those societal circumstances do not control or determine how the black community unites. The book’s main focus is upon the nature, destiny, and mission of black families and churches in this country, in the hopes of unifying these two parts of life.

Author : James Deotis Roberts,Michael Battle
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664228925

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The Quest for Liberation and Reconciliation by James Deotis Roberts,Michael Battle Pdf

Leading contemporary theologians and scholars present essays on the themes of liberation and reconciliation in tribute to J. Deotis Roberts. The essays are divided into the following sections: Theological Reflection, Faith in Dialogue, and Shaping the Practice of Ministry. The compilation presents an interesting array of perspectives on the ways in which Christian theology, ethics, and ministry are involved in the quests for liberation and reconciliation in North America and the rest of the world.

Author : Marleen S. Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015074226146

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Afro-future Females by Marleen S. Barr Pdf

Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory, edited by Marleen S. Barr, is the first combined science fiction critical anthology and short story collection to focus upon black women via written and visual texts. The volume creates a dialogue with existing theories of Afro-Futurism in order to generate fresh ideas about how to apply race to science fiction studies in terms of gender. The contributors, including Hortense Spillers, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, and Steven Barnes, formulate a woman-centered Afro-Futurism by repositioning previously excluded fiction to redefine science fiction as a broader fantastic endeavor. They articulate a platform for scholars to mount a vigorous argument in favor of redefining science fiction to encompass varieties of fantastic writing and, therefore, to include a range of black women's writing that would otherwise be excluded. Afro-Future Females builds upon Barr's previous work in black science fiction and fills a gap in the literature. It is the first critical anthology to address the "blackness" of outer space fiction in terms of feminism, emphasizing that it is necessary to revise the very nature of a genre that has been constructed in such a way as to exclude its new black participants. Black science fiction writers alter genre conventions to change how we read and define science fiction itself. The work's main point: black science fiction is the most exciting literature of the nascent twenty-first century.

Author : Bill J. Leonard
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664251196

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Becoming Christian by Bill J. Leonard Pdf

Drawing upon the perspectives of Christian education, biblical studies, worship, ethics, the arts, the role of women, the role of minorities, sexuality, and vocation, this book provides a multifaceted picture of the meaning of spirituality. Becoming Christian is an accessible text that introduces readers to the important issues involved in being a Christian.

Author : Curran, Charles E.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336388

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Tradition and Church Reform by Curran, Charles E. Pdf

Author : Wylin D. Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319663487

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Economic Ethics & the Black Church by Wylin D. Wilson Pdf

This book examines the relationship between race, religion, and economics within the black church. The book features unheard voices of individuals experiencing economic deprivation and the faith communities who serve as their refuge. Thus, this project examines the economic ethics of black churches in the rural South whose congregants and broader communities have long struggled amidst persistent poverty. Through a case study of communities in Alabama's Black Belt, this book argues that if the economic ethic of the Black Church remains accommodationist, it will continue to become increasingly irrelevant to communities that experience persistent poverty. Despite its historic role in combatting racial oppression and social injustice, the Church has also perpetuated ideologies that uncritically justify unjust social structures. Wilson shows how the Church can shift the conversation and reality of poverty by moving from a legacy of accommodationism and toward a legacy of empowering liberating economic ethics.

Author : Lewis V. Baldwin
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451412991

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To Make the Wounded Whole by Lewis V. Baldwin Pdf

To Make the Wounded Whole describes how King's black messianic vision propelled him into fateful encounters with other black leaders, the war in Vietnam, black theology and world liberation movements.

Author : Arvarh E. Strickland,Robert E. Weems Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065002

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The African American Experience by Arvarh E. Strickland,Robert E. Weems Jr. Pdf

Compared to the early decades of the 20th century, when scholarly writing on African Americans was limited to a few titles on slavery, Reconstruction, and African American migration, the last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of works on the African American experience. With the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s came an increasing demand for the study and teaching of African American history followed by the publication of increasing numbers of titles on African American life and history. This volume provides a comprehensive bibliographical and analytical guide to this growing body of literature as well as an analysis of how the study of African Americans has changed.

Author : Darvin Anton Adams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666735635

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Inner-City Blues by Darvin Anton Adams Pdf

Black theology's addressing of economic poverty in the Black neighborhoods and communities of the United States gives substantive reasoning to the fact that Black poverty is a theological problem. In connecting the narrative of idolatry to the irreversible harm that is associated with all forms of poverty, this new book interlocks the racial subjugation of Black Americans with the false assumptions of capitalism. Here the inner-city blues of poverty are experienced by those who reside in metropolitan cities and rural towns. The poverty of Black Americans is described with a vision of development and reconciliation—one that is intentional in its use of cultural language and inclusive to the destructive images of Black people's deprivation. In understanding how idolatry foundationalizes deprivation in the inner-city communities, I envision the liberation motif in Black theology working with the mission of the Black church for the purposes of community empowerment and neighborhood development. As a form of material and structural poverty, Black poverty is an interdisciplinary study that requires a holistic approach to ministry. With a theological focus on deprived inner-city communities, this new volume strategically moves the conversation of Black poverty from description to construction to solution.

Author : Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813530148

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Growing Up Protestant by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth Pdf

Home and family are key, yet relatively unexplored, dimensions of religion in the contemporary United States. American cultural lore is replete with images of saintly nineteenth-century American mothers and their children. During the twentieth century, however, the form and function of the American family have changed radically, and religious beliefs have evolved under the challenges of modernity. As these transformations took place, how did religion manage to "fit" into modern family life? In this book, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth examines the lives and beliefs of white, middle-class mainline Protestants (principally northern Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and Congregationalists) who are theologically moderate or liberal. Mainliners have pursued family issues for most of the twentieth century, churning out hundreds of works on Christian childrearing. Bendroth's book explores the role of family within a religious tradition that sees itself as America's cultural center. In this balanced analysis, the author traces the evolution of mainliners' roles in middle-class American culture and sharpens our awareness of the ways in which the mainline Protestant experience has actually shaped and reflected the American sense of self.

Author : James Deotis Roberts
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664240224

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Black Theology in Dialogue by James Deotis Roberts Pdf

Challenging all who are concerned about religion in today's world, J. Deotis Roberts outlines a new way of looking at the essential questions. Roberts proposes a theology concerned with concrete and specific situations that also retains a universal vision. In discussing the relationship of American black thought to African, liberation, feminist, Asian, and Euro-American theologies, he covers significant religious issues such as love, justice, power, and evil.

Author : Gary Dorrien
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300264524

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A Darkly Radiant Vision by Gary Dorrien Pdf

The third and final volume in the first comprehensive history of Black social Christianity, by the "greatest theological ethicist of the twenty-first century" (Michael Eric Dyson) The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed and ongoing importance in American life, argues Gary Dorrien in his groundbreaking trilogy on the history of Black social Christianity. This concluding volume, an interpretation of the tradition since the early 1970s, follows Dorrien's award-winning The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel and Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel. Beginning in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr., Dorrien examines the past fifty years of this intellectual and activist tradition, interpreting its politics, theology, ethics, social criticism, and social justice organizing. He argues that Black social Christianity is today an intersectional tradition of discourse and activist religion that interrelates liberation theology, womanist theology, antiracist politics, LGBTQ+ theory, cultural criticism, progressive religion, broad-based interfaith organizing, and global solidarity politics. A Darkly Radiant Vision features in-depth discussions of Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Gayraud Wilmore, James Cone, Cornel West, Katie Geneva Cannon, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Traci Blackmon, William J. Barber II, Raphael G. Warnock, and many others.

Author : James Deotis Roberts
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004150093

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Roots of a Black Future by James Deotis Roberts Pdf

Author : Raphael G. Warnock
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479806003

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The Divided Mind of the Black Church by Raphael G. Warnock Pdf

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community’s fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central tension in the identity and mission of the black church in the United States. For decades the black church and black theology have held each other at arm’s length. Black theology has emphasized the role of Christian faith in addressing racism and other forms of oppression, arguing that Jesus urged his disciples to seek the freedom of all peoples. Meanwhile, the black church, even when focused on social concerns, has often emphasized personal piety rather than social protest. With the rising influence of white evangelicalism, biblical fundamentalism, and the prosperity gospel, the divide has become even more pronounced. In The Divided Mind of the Black Church, Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., traces the historical significance of the rise and development of black theology as an important conversation partner for the black church. Calling for honest dialogue between black and womanist theologians and black pastors, this fresh theological treatment demands a new look at the church’s essential mission.

Author : James Deotis Roberts
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664254888

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The Prophethood of Black Believers by James Deotis Roberts Pdf

This valuable resource from one of the founding fathers of the black theology movement discusses how to minister to the black community. Using an interdisciplinary approach, J. Deotis Toberts shows how theological concepts can be applied to education, pastoral care, and political and economic issues.