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No longer slaves : Galatians and African American experience / Brad Ronnell Braxton.
Van Pelt Library BS2685.52 .B73 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braxton, Brad Ronnell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Galatians--Reader-response criticism.
- Bible.
- Bible. Galatians.
- African Americans--Religion.
- African Americans.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 142 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- No Longer Slaves brings the ancient New Testament message into conversation with African American culture. Twenty centuries after Paul penned Galatians, American culture in general and American Christianity in particular continue to struggle with the problem of race relations. Our challenges are not identical to those faced by Paul and the Galatians. Yet, when one reads Galatians through the lens of African American experience, striking similarities emerge. In No Longe Slaves, Brad Braxton helps us see that race relations are a central issue in Galatians. Paul believes that Christ came in order to unite Jews and Gentiles. The church was intended to be a multi-ethnic community in which persons of different backgrounds co-existed harmoniously. Any effort to compel Gentiles to live as Jews is an invalidation of the freedom of the Gospel. Galatians offers us a portrait of an early Christian leader and community sorting out complex social issues.
- Contents:
- 1 Liberation and African American Experience 1
- Liberation: Rationales and Definitions 2
- Blackness: Biology and Ideology 6
- African American Biblical Interpretation 12
- 2 A Reading Strategy for Liberation 28
- Reader-Response Criticism and Black and Womanist Theologies 28
- The Bible and Authority in Reader-Response Criticism 32
- The African American (Christian) Interpretive Community 38
- 3 Galatians and African American Experience 54
- Historical Overview 54
- Interpretations 56
- Galatians 1:1-9 57
- Galatians 2:1-10 64
- Galatians 2:11-21 71
- Galatians 3:1-5 84
- Galatians 3:6-14 86
- Galatians 3:26-29 92
- Galatians 4:1-11 96
- Galatians 5:13-26 102.
- Notes:
- "A Michael Glazier book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-137) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814659489
- OCLC:
- 49796261
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