The Divided Mind of the Black Church : Theology, Piety, and Public Witness /

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What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community's fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warnock, Raphael G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Schwarze
Schwarze Theologie
Mission
Kirche
Black theology.
African American churches.
RELIGION > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Theologie noire.
Églises noires americaines.
USA
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The gospel of liberation : Black Christian resistance prior to Black theology
  • The gospel's meaning and the Black church's mission
  • Black theologians on the mission of the Black church
  • Black pastors on the mission of the Black church
  • Womanist theologians on the mission of the Black church.

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