Black theology-essays on global perspectives / Dwight N. Hopkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkins, Dwight N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black theology.

Liberation theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2017.

Summary:

Since its start in 1966, black liberation theology in the United States has continually engaged international developments with Africa and the entire world. But after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, there has been an almost twenty-year break in books on black theology and international affairs. Black Theology--Essays on Global Perspectives bridges that post-1990 gap and makes a vital contact with Africa again.This book conceptualizes black theology to take on the global reconfigurations and opportunities brought about by the rapidly shrinking earth of fast-paced, worldwide contacts. In other words, in the specificity of the genealogy of black theology, we need to reforge ties with Africa. This claim is based on tradition.And in the generality of the larger worldwide intertwining of technologies and economics, we need a new type of black theological leadership for the twenty-first century. This claim is based on today's international challenges.The essays in this book draw on tradition and point forward in the midst of today's worldwide challenges and favorable possibilities, given the closeness of all nations and the varieties of cultures.

Contents:

Black liberation theology: a global origin

A transatlantic comparison of a Black theology of liberation

Christology: the images of the Divine in USA and South African black theology

Steve Biko, Black consciousness and Black theology

A Black American perspective on interfaith dialogue in the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians

Black Theology and Third World liberation theologies

Social justice in Nostra Aetate and in Black liberation theology

Columbus, the church, and slave religion

The religion of globalization

The Black church and its mission for the Twenty-first century

The international association of Black religions and spiritualities

Africa in African American religious history and teaching

Malcolm and Martin: being human in a complex world

To be spiritual and to be Black together

Africa: building new leadership in the twenty-first century

Teaching being human in global comparison

A Black Christian theological anthropology: Black, United States, and China.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781532608223

1532608225