Living in hell : the dilemma of African-American survival / Mose Pleasure, Jr. & Fred C. Lofton, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pleasure, Mose, editor.

Lofton, Fred C., editor.

Melas Ekklesia Group, sponsor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sermons, American--African American authors.

Sermons, American.

African Americans--Religion--Sermons.

African Americans.

Moral conditions.

African Americans--Religion.

United States--Moral conditions--Sermons.

United States.

Genre:

Sermons.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

220 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : portraits ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : ZondervanPublishingHouse, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995.

Summary:

African-Americans live today in a society where the realities of life seem to fly in the face of the promises of God. Young black men in particular face a double dilemma: "a hell that dares them to achieve and at the same time annihilates them for cutting against the grain". It is a dilemma that reaps a whirlwind of anger and despair. But according to leading black ministers in Living in Hell, African-Americans can reclaim their identity and direction - through faith in God, belief in self, and a solid moral base. Using compelling examples from the Old and New Testaments, Living in Hell illustrates the triumphs, mistakes, and challenges of the modern African-American Christian.

Contents:

Sermons From the Old Testament. Go get Lot / Kevin Brian Willis, Sr. Living in hell: America the unprincipled place / David A. Hall. From heaven to hell: what went wrong in Egypt? / Alan V. Ragland. Going beyond news from the brickyard / Edward L. Wheeler. The walls came tumbling down / Charles L. Dinkins. You already have it! / Reginald L. Porter, Sr. Living in hell: the need for a man in the black family / Reuben H. Green. Be careful who you try to hang / Wyatt Tee Walker. How to get out of hell / Alfred D. Hill. Have your own / Randolph Meade Walker

Sermons From the New Testament. The church as a healing agent: let the church be the church / Douglas I. Miles. Jesus calls us to greatness / T. O'Neal Crivens, Sr. How to handle leftovers: toward a theology for fragments / Mose Pleasure, Jr. The Lazarus dilemma: a paradigm for the African-American male / David L. Boyle. Bad black dude on the road / Fred C. Lofton. Uncle Tom theology / Michael N. Harris

Essays. Living in hell: the dilemma of African-American survival / Mose Pleasure, Jr. The conquest of hell: an essay / Charles William Butler.

Notes:

"A project of the Melas Ekklesia Group."

"Edited by Victoria L. Johnson. Interior design by Sherri L. Hoffman."

"Cover Design: Paula Gibson."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Living in hell.

ISBN:

0310497817

9780310497813

OCLC:

32349344