Pragmatic Spirituality : The Christian Faith through an Africentric Lens / Gayraud S. Wilmore.
Wilmore, Gayraud S., author.
2004
BR563.N4 W54 2004
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Title Pragmatic Spirituality : The Christian Faith through an Africentric Lens / Gayraud S. Wilmore.
Author Wilmore, Gayraud S., author.
ISBN 9780814729342
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814729342.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2004]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814729342.001.0001 doi
Call Number BR563.N4 W54 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 230/.089/96073
Summary Gayraud S. Wilmore, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of the African American church, is one of the founders of black theology and author of Black Religion and Black Radicalism. Pragmatic Spirituality brings together some of his most compelling writings to speak to continuing issues in African American Christianity and black theology. The volume makes available for the first time several of Wilmore's previously unpublished essays, including a new chapter on womanist theology written for this book. Each chapter has been thoroughly reviewed and where appropriate reworked for this volume in order to create a coherent work which reveals a consistent "pragmatic spirituality" in African and African American religious practice. This book presents a view of the Christian faith and life at variance with the quest for personal sanctity by emphasizing communal empowerment for humanization and justice. Pragmatic Spirituality incorporates some of the most engaging of Wilmore's voluminous writings to reinstate a persistent theme: that black or Africentric faith transposes itself from basically numinous and ecstatic elements in African and African diasporic religions to the immediate and practical work of healing and empowering the poor and marginalized. This book transcends a narrow Africentrism to call for a broad acquaintance with a historic motif in black faith that has to do with compassion, justice, equality, and the liberation of all people. This illuminating volume displays Wilmore's influence on the development of black theology for over fifty years, and introduces his work to a new generation of scholars.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Teaching African American Religious Studies
1 What Is African American Religious Studies?
2 Reinterpretation in Black Church History
3 Black Religion: Strategies of Survival, Elevation, and Liberation
4 Womanist Thought as a Recovery of Liberation Theology
5 "Doing the Truth" Some Criteria for Researching and Teaching African American Religious History
6 What Is African American Christianity?
7 African Beginnings
8 The Black Messiah: Revising the Color Symbolism of Western Christology
9 Black Consciousness: Stumbling Block or Battering Ram?
Part III Black Theology History and Major Motifs
10 What Is Black Theology?
11 Eschatology in Black
12 Black Power, Black People, and Theological Renewal
13 The Role of African America in the Rise of Third-World Theology: A Historical Reappraisal
Part IV Africentric Pastoral Ministry
14 What Is the Relevance of Black Theology for Pastoral Ministry?
15 Black Christians, Church Unity, and One Common Expression of Apostolic Faith
16 Lessons from My Father's World: A Sermon
17 Struggling against Racism with Realism and Hope
Notes
Index
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