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Introducing Black Theology of Liberation
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by Dwight N. Hopkins
Sales Rank: 107285
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Cover Type: Paperback with 237 pages
Published by: Orbis Books December 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1570752869
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1570752865
Book Dimensions:
8.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 9.6 ounces
From Library Journal
Both of these well-written and easily accessible books situate black theology in the context of the African American church and in opposition to white-dominated theologies. After a brief introduction to black theology during the slave period, Hopkins (theology, Univ. of Chicago; Shoes That Fit Our Feet) traces its more recent history--from the the Civil Rights era (1950s and 1960s) to the present. He considers the generation of the founders, looks at the second generation (which came at theology from different political and cultural perspectives), and then treats more modern movements (especially vis-?-vis women and the Third World). He concludes with reflections on the challenges facing black theology today. Cone (theology, Union Theological Seminary; Black Theology and Black Power) offers a collection of essays he wrote over the last thirty years. He argues that Christ's central message to 20th-century Americans is black power, supports women's greater participation in the black church, and encourages black undergraduates to recognize the role of theology in their studies. He also suggests that Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had a complementary influence on black theology. Both of these books have the potential to make readers who are not African American somewhat uncomfortable because of the challenges they contain. Still, all readers would benefit from a reflective study of these thoughtful texts. Recommended for African American studies collections, seminaries, and greater libraries.
-Augustine J. Curley, Newark Abbey, NJ
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
Black Theology has become well known in the nation's major seminairies. James Cone, Deotis Roberts and other Black theologians' names are well regarded in academic circles. Finding a book which encompasses the whole of Black Theology has been a vacuum which is now filled through the work of Dwight Hopkins. For the first time readers have access to a text which gives a historical survey of the development and encounters of Black Theology with other theologies. Introducing Black Theology of Liberation is long overdue in the academy. Dr. Hopkins traces Black Theology from its roots in Africa and its development in the context of the United States of America Diaspara. We are shown how the first generation of Black theologians dealt with the political and racial turmoil in the 1960's and 70's. From that experience came their articulation of what it means to be Black and Christian. Hopkins' work is inclusive in that it includes the voices of Womanist theologians who have critiqued their brother colleagues about how sexism impacted on Black women as well as race. Black male theologians were made to confront their own notions of sexism. In addition Black theology is not in conversation with just itself. Its encounter with other Third World Theologies has forced it to look at other oppressions that keep humanity from achieving fullness in Christ. There isn't any doubt that this will become the standard text in the teaching of Black Theology in the classrooms.
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