Dogged strength within the veil : Africana spirituality and the mysterious love of God / Josiah Ulysses Young III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Josiah U. (Josiah Ulysses)

Series:

African American religious thought and life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Spiritual life--Christianity.

Spiritual life.

Physical Description:

ix, 133 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Harrisburg, PA : Trinity Press International, [2003]

Summary:

Using the writings of W.E.B. DuBois, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and others, Young seeks insights from the African American experience to break through the oppressiveness of a Christianity corrupted by white notions of power, suggesting a return to the gospel. He cites personal experiences from two study trips to Africa and the writings of Africans to uncover parallels in that continent's spiritual traditions to a Christianity based on the "mysterious love of God." In particular, he sees true interpretations of the Gospel in the work of African Christians like Engelbert Mveng, a Jesuit who was murdered in his native Cameroon for advocating human rights, but whose writings "invested Christian symbols with their original energy."

Contents:

Part one. Introduction

Ever at thy glowing altar : the problem

Burning through the plastic image : the approach

Part two. Dogged strength within the veil : double-consciousness and the shrouding activity of the white man's religion

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen : Du Bois's inner strength

American Africanism : Toni Morrison's insight into the form of God

God is nobody's toy : James Baldwin's rejection of a nullifying double standard

Part three. Africana spirituality : progenies of the middle passage and their implications for today

Questions louder than drums : this discomfort

From Ryangombe the blood pact to the bloody Panga

Part four. The mysterious love of God : burning through the veil

Une surprenante analogie : reinvesting Christian symbols with their original energy

The mysterious love of a third-party God.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128) and index.

ISBN:

1563383462

OCLC:

51769021