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Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Therefore, “The truth of the gospel is that the crucifixion represents the passion and death of an oppressed people who are resurrected not in heaven but on earth.”57 Because of Black experience in America, “God comes as liberator to realize what white men have prevented in history—freedom, justice, and equality.”58 Therefore, “No approach to
... See moreEric Mason • Urban Apologetics
So, when I say the American church has color-coded Christianity, what I mean is that we’ve allowed our brokenness around race and class to define how we express our faith and how we value one another.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Ron Karenga, you said that ‘The fact that I am Black is my ultimate reality.’ But then on page 34 of the same book, you wrote that ‘Christianity begins and ends with the man Jesus—his life, death and resurrection.’ Which do you really mean? Blackness or Jesus Christ? You cannot have it both ways.” This is an important matter, and perhaps the place
... See moreJames H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
To read Augustine in the twenty-first century is to gain a vantage point that makes all of our freedom look like addiction.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
by most accounts, African American Catholics have, more so than White Catholics, remained committed Catholics.3
Donald B. Pope-Davis • Perseverance in the Parish?: Religious Attitudes from a Black Catholic Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
8 Jesus as Culture Maker
Tish Harrison Warren • Culture Making
It grew beautifully and powerfully inside of colonialism and colonial Christianity, took hold inside the educational foundations of the modern West, and now constantly flashes across the cognitive landscape of the educated imagination. The formation of the self-sufficient man has always been the greatest temptation for Christian formation because
... See moreWillie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
