Forever in Thy Path: The God of Black Liberation - Softcover

Singleton, Harry, III

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626984700 ISBN 13: 9781626984707

Verlag: Orbis Books (USA), 2022

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In this timely work, Harry Singleton maintains that the God of biblical revelation is today the God of Black liberation, and that the God who acted on behalf of the disinherited in biblical history is the same God whose liberating presence is seen in the contemporary Black liberation struggle today, a liberating presence that will ultimately defeat the historical power of white supremacy. The guarantee of God’s liberating presence is seen not only in the deliverance of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt, but in God’s incarnation, in Jesus, in an oppressed and despised people, thus forging an eternal solidarity that transforms the tragedy of Jesus’ death into a resurrected life that overcomes the power of death. Throughout, Singleton employs the metaphor of “path” to denote of the trek of Black people on their liberating journey from the holds of slave ships, to their ongoing struggle to be free. That path has several dimensions, which form the structure of this work: the path of freedom, conversion, obedience, righteousness, justice, liberation, and eternity, all indispensable in the quest for human liberation.

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Harry H. Singleton, III, teaches in the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He earned an M.Div. degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, and his doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. His previous books are Black Theology and Ideology, White Religion and Black Humanity, and Divine Revelation and Human Liberation.

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Introduction

As we now have the eightieth anniversary of the 1938 publication of Benjamin E. Mays, The Negro’s God as Reflected in His Literature, in our rearview mirror, we are indebted to Mays for the first landmark study on African Americans’ diverse understandings of God. It still serves as the most comprehensive study on God in the history of Black people in this country. Mays’s masterful work examines the different time periods in which Black people’s understanding of God evolved: first from 1760 to 1865 (Emancipation); then from 1865 to 1914 (World War I); and finally from 1914 to 1938 (the publication of the book). From those three periods, Mays was able to identify four images of analysis: physical and emotional security; otherworldly/compensatory; atheistic; and social reconstruction. Let us now examine these different periods more closely.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Orbis Books (USA)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1626984700
• ISBN 13: 9781626984707
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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