The African American Guide To The Bible

Author : H.C. Felder
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781641140089

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The African American Guide to the Bible by H.C. Felder Pdf

The African American Guide to the Bible makes the case for the relevance of the Bible from the perspective of people of color. It presents a comprehensive biblical view of topics of interest to African Americans and clarifies racial issues for white people. Part 1 addresses the inspiration of the Bible by giving evidence for its authenticity. A considerable amount of time is spent on examining the original text of the Bible, the archeological evidence, and the evidence from predictive prophecy to demonstrate the uniqueness of the Bible. Part 2 deals with the black presence in the Bible by demonstrating the prominence of people of color and black people in particular by highlighting their importance in the plan of God. It explains what it means to be black and demonstrates that the scientific and biblical evidence are both consistent with respect to race. Part 3 is a response to the arguments of racism used by critics of the Bible, for example, "Christianity is the white man's religion" and "Bible supports slavery and racism." These arguments are examined and evaluated in light of scripture and the context of history. Part 4 deals with the unity of humanity from a biblical perspective. It shows why racism is not only unbiblical but is evil when understood from the perspective of God.

Author : Michael Joseph Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567178688

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Blackening of the Bible by Michael Joseph Brown Pdf

Michael Brown offers an overview of the history of the development of African American and Afrocentric biblical interpretation. He then discusses how such scholarship began as an attempt to correct the biases African Americans perceived to be manifest in European and Euro-American biblical scholarship. This corrective, he says, quickly developed a life of its own, and Afrocentric biblical interpretation developed its own interpretive voice and style. Brown also examines Afrocentrism and the "blackening of the Bible," offering a critique of the color politics of Afrocentric criticism. He examines the evolution of womanism as a method of biblical interpretation, and explores and criticizes the ways that ideological and postcolonial criticism has contributed to Afrocentric biblical criticism. Finally, he presents the challenges he thinks confront the practice of such criticism, and he advances a new paradigm for the project that will put it in conversation with a wider audience of biblical scholars, classicists, historians, and theologians. Michael Joseph Brown is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Candler School of theology, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author of What They Don't Tell You: A Survivor's Guide to Academic Biblical Studies and The Lord's Prayer through North African Eyes: A Window into Early Christianity.

Author : Esau McCaulley
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830854875

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Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley Pdf

Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. A key element in the fight for hope, he discovered, has long been the practice of Bible reading and interpretation that comes out of traditional Black churches. This ecclesial tradition is often disregarded or viewed with suspicion by much of the wider church and academy, but it has something vital to say. Reading While Black is a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation. At a time in which some within the African American community are questioning the place of the Christian faith in the struggle for justice, New Testament scholar McCaulley argues that reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition is invaluable for connecting with a rich faith history and addressing the urgent issues of our times. He advocates for a model of interpretation that involves an ongoing conversation between the collective Black experience and the Bible, in which the particular questions coming out of Black communities are given pride of place and the Bible is given space to respond by affirming, challenging, and, at times, reshaping Black concerns. McCaulley demonstrates this model with studies on how Scripture speaks to topics often overlooked by white interpreters, such as ethnicity, political protest, policing, and slavery. Ultimately McCaulley calls the church to a dynamic theological engagement with Scripture, in which Christians of diverse backgrounds dialogue with their own social location as well as the cultures of others. Reading While Black moves the conversation forward.

Author : Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610979641

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African Americans and the Bible by Vincent L. Wimbush Pdf

Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the Bible courses through black society and culture like blood through veins. Despite the enormous recent interest in African American religion, relatively little attention has been paid to the diversity of ways in which African Americans have utilized the Bible.African Americans and the Bibleis the fruit of a four-year collaborative research project directed by Vincent L. Wimbush and funded by the Lilly Endowment. It brings together scholars and experts (sixty-eight in all) from a wide range of academic and artistic fields and disciplines--including ethnography, cultural history, and biblical studies as well as art, music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of visions, rhetorics, and ideologies known as the Bible. As such, the book is less about the meaning(s) of the Bible than about the Bible and meaning(s), less about the world(s) of the Bible than about how worlds and the Bible interact--in short, about how a text constructs a people and a people constructs a text. It is about a particular sociocultural formation but also about the dynamics that obtain in the interrelation between any group of people and sacred texts in general. ThusAfrican Americans and the Bibleprovides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.

Author : Colleen Birchett
Publisher : Urban Ministries Inc
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0940955202

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Biblical Strategies for a Community in Crisis by Colleen Birchett Pdf

Through inspirational messages and warnings, 11 leading Christian thinkers share with readers the major challenges facing the African American community and its church. Readers are given biblical strategies for facing these challenges. 12 lessons. Leader's Guide also available.

Author : George Abatso,Yvonne Abatso
Publisher : Urban Ministries Inc
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0940955180

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How to Equip the African American Family by George Abatso,Yvonne Abatso Pdf

The companion to How to Equip the African American Family, the Leader's Guide offers suggestions for using biblical guides to enhance the study. The Guide also contains answers to study questions.

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green Pdf

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Author : Colleen Birchett
Publisher : Urban Ministries Inc
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0940955261

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How I Got Over by Colleen Birchett Pdf

If you've ever wondered why righteous people suffer, this insightful program is for you. Examine the testimonies of 12 African Americans who triumphed over suffering and see how their faith was strengthened. Each inspiring chapter brings the individual testimony through commentary, Bible study application, church ministry application, and personal application.

Author : Charles B. Copher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : NWU:35556022021463

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Black Biblical Studies by Charles B. Copher Pdf

Author : Michele Clark Jenkins
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401677800

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She Speaks by Michele Clark Jenkins Pdf

She Speaks helps African-American women find relevance, purpose, and identity in the Word of God. Each chapter offers a complete list of references to help the reader locate the stories of these inspirational women in the Bible with ease.

Author : Cain Hope Felder
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781506472041

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Stony the Road We Trod by Cain Hope Felder Pdf

A hallmark of American Black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change. Stony the Road We Trod accomplishes this--and much more. This expanded edition contains a new introduction and three new essays that underscore the historic importance of this book for a new generation.

Author : Mitzi J. Smith
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506401133

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Insights from African American Interpretation by Mitzi J. Smith Pdf

Each volume in the Insights series discusses discoveries and insights gained into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing to today’s students, each Insight volume discusses how this method, approach, or strategy was first developed and how its application has changed over time; what current questions arise from its use; what enduring insights it has produced; and what questions remain for future scholarship. Mitzi J. Smith describes the distinctive African American experience of Scripture, from slavery to Black Liberation and beyond, and the unique angles of perception that an intentional African American interpretation brings to the text for a contemporary generation of scholars. Smith shows how questions of race,ethnicity, and the dynamics of “othering” have been developed in African American biblical scholarship, resulting in new reading of particular texts. Further, Smith describes challenges that scholarship raises for the future of biblical interpretation generally.

Author : Kwasi I Kena D Min,Carey Latimore, PH D,Ramon Mayo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683531280

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Building a City on a Hill by Kwasi I Kena D Min,Carey Latimore, PH D,Ramon Mayo Pdf

Building A City On A Hill: African American Communities of Purpose Leader's Guide explores how we can shine for Jesus by demonstrating Christian character wherever God has placed us. Each chapter reminds us that God calls us to be Christians at home, at work, and in the community. This call enables us to change lives and foster economic development, which causes families and communities to flourish. A revisit of historic Black towns showcases the self-sufficient businesses and enterprises that African Americans built after emancipation. Vocational excellence, unselfish service, and an awareness that God is at work in each life are key to this curriculum. Building A City On A Hill is suitable for Adult Vacation Bible School, small groups, and individual Bible study. The lives of ten Bible characters serve as examples of good works and moral excellence while being the light in their particular situations. By learning about these characters, you will be inspired and equipped to be the light of the world. USE THIS BOOK FOR: Family Devotion Private Study Weekday Bible Studies Adult Vacation Bible School Church Retreats Ministry Group Training Written and edited by Kwasi I. Kena, D.Min., and Carey Latimore, Ph.D. Compiled and edited by Ramon Mayo. ALSO AVAILABLE: Building A City On A Hill: African American Communities of Purpose Adult Book Building A City On A Hill: African American Communities of Purpose Student Workbook ABOUT THE WRITERS/EDITORS: Dr. Kwasi I. Kena is the Faculty Chair and Associate Professor of Ethnic and Multicultural Ministry at Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. Dr. Carey Latimore is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where he teaches courses such as The African American Experience Through Reconstruction.

Author : Melba Eldridge
Publisher : Author House
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781463473136

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African American Men Struggle to Seek God by Melba Eldridge Pdf

Have you ever felt the need for another chance with life? How about a third, fourth or fifth chance. With this workbook, youve found it. Unscrambling words, filling in the blanks and more give way to self motivation. This workbook has four main issues; childhood trauma, pride, frustration and false expectations, it works along with the paper back book. Its an easy read for high-end youth or men, very informative and fun. What do you have to lose? Try it!!!

Author : Brie Daniels
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535190051

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The Black Girl's Guide to Living on Purpose Workbook by Brie Daniels Pdf

In this interactive study, developed from the book, The Black Girl's Guide to Living on Purpose, Brie Daniels challenges readers to take a deeper look at the contents and explore new ways to apply the Bible-based action steps to their spiritual, emotional, professional, physical and recreational lives.