Indigenous Black Theology: Toward an African-Centered Theology of the African American Religious Experience

by J. Clark

Overview

This work is concerned with the way Black Christian formation, because of the acceptance of universal, absolute, and exclusive Christian doctrines, seems to justify and even encourage anti-African sentiment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137002822
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/10/2012
Series:	Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

JAWANZA ERIC CLARK is Assistant Professor of Global Christianity at Manhattan College, USA.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface vii

Author's Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1 "I Once Was Lost, But Now I'm Found": The Origins of Black Christian Anti-African Sentiment 21

2 The Only Way to Salvation: A Christological Critique 55

3 Overcoming Religious and Cultural Amnesia: Who Are the Ancestors? 75

4 Indigenous Black Theology: Toward a Theology of the Ancestors 101

5 The Dead Are Not Dead: The Future of Black Theology and Black Church Theologies 127

Conclusion 163

Notes 169

Bibliography 181

Index 185

Editorial Reviews

"Jawanza Eric Clark's Akan-based criticism of Christian dogmatics will edify those who read him. He makes his case for an African-centered hermeneutics skillfully, knowledgeably, and in depth." - Josiah Young, professor of Systematic Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary

"At long last, going beyond the lip-service of many Black theologians who have counted African Religion as a 'source' for the development of their discipline without drawing upon that heritage in specific ways, Jawanza Eric Clark has genuinely and creatively drawn upon the central African religious notion of 'ancestors' in the formulation of Black theological anthropology. This book shows how Black theologians can re-connect with their ancestral roots in ways that make important new developments possible in their message, invigorating a discipline bogged down and tired of repeating the categories formulated in those contexts from which liberation is sought." - Emmanuel Y. Lartey, professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling, Candler School of Theology

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