Creative exchange : a constructive theology of African American religious experience / Victor Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Victor, 1955-

Series:

Innovations (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Innovations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religious life.

African Americans.

Black theology.

Religious life.

Physical Description:

xvii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2008]

Summary:

* A serious look at the larger cultural, theological, and philosophical issues that face black religion today * A new way of evaluating slave narratives, suffering, and the role of the churches

Contents:

From human experience to creative exchange : benchmarks of a pragmatic theology of African American religious experience

Beyond dichotomies : toward a relational concept of race in African American religious experience

We see through a glass darkly : slave narrative theology and the opacity of African American religious thought

Faith on earth : a defense of redemptive suffering in African American theology

The smell of life : a pragmatic theology of religious experience

Home and the Black church : centers of value in a pragmatic theology of African American religious experience.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.

ISBN:

9780800662554

0800662555

OCLC:

156832269