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Living Stones in the Household of God: The Legacy and Future of Black Theology

Living Stones in the Household of God

The Legacy and Future of Black Theology

Linda E. Thomas (Editor)

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The advent of black theology in the late 1960s brought together a revolution in the nation's race relations with a new theological reckoning and a reassessment of the black church's legacy of social justice. Now, a generation later, scholars and theologians are taking stock of black theology, not just its immense influence and power but its future shape and purpose.

In this volume, sixteen theologians assess the impact and import of black theology and the new challenges presented by today's intellectual, social, religious, and geopolitical situation. Including two chapters by James H. Cone, the pioneer of black theology, the volume examines black theology and the black churches, black theology and the white churches, black theology in light of global religions, and the ongoing spiritual challenges to African Americans today. A major focus of the volume is the contribution of womanist thought.

Along with Linda Thomas, contributors include James H. Cone, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Lee Butler, Karen E. Mosby-Avery, Rosemary Radford Ruether, D. Stephen Long, Lacey Warner, Jim Perkinson, José David Rodriguez, George E. Tinker, Edward P. Antonio, Yvonne Lee, Dwight N. Hopkins, M. Shawn Copeland, and Emilie M. Townes.
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800636272
  • Dimensions 6 x 9
  • Pages 248
  • Publication Date November 13, 2003

Contributors

Linda E. Thomas
James H. Cone
Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
Lee H. Butler Jr.
Karen E. Mosby-Avery
Rosemary Radford Ruether
D. Stephen Long
Laceye Warner
Jim Perkinson
Jose David Rodriguez
Iva E. Carruthers
George E. Tinker
Edward P. Antonio
Yvonne Lee
Dwight N. Hopkins
M. Shawn Copeland
Emilie M. Townes

Table of Contents

    Preface
    About the Contributors
    Introduction

    Part One: Black Theology and the Black Church

  1. Calling the Oppression to Account: God and Black Suffering
    James H. Cone

  2. Doing Black Theology in the Black Church
    Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

  3. Testimony as Hope and Care: African American Pastoral Care as Black Theology at Work
    Lee H. Butler Jr.

  4. Black Theology and the Black Church
    Karen E. Mosby-Avery

  5. Womanist Theology, Epistemology, and a New Anthropological Paradigm
    Linda E. Thomas

    Part Two: Black Theology and the White Church

  6. A White Feminist Response to Black and Womanist Theologies
    Rosemary Radford Ruether

  7. What I Learned from James Cone and Black Theology
    D. Stephan Long

  8. Reconsidering Evangelism: Lessons from Black Liberation and Womanist Theologies
    Laceye Warner

  9. Black Theology and the White Church in the Third Millennium: Like a Thief in the Night
    Jim Perkinson

    Part: Three: Black Theology and Global Religions

  10. Black Theology's Impact on the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians
    Jose David Rodriguez

  11. The Outsider's Role in Socially Engaged Scholarship on African Religion
    Linda E. Thomas

  12. Black Theology and Ecumenism
    Iva E. Carruthers

  13. American Indian Religious Traditions, Colonialism, Resistance, and Liberation
    George E. Tinker

  14. Ecology as Experience in African Indigenous Religions
    Edward P. Antonio

  15. A Theological Reflection on the Korean People's Han and Hanpuri
    Yvonne Lee

  16. A Black American Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue
    Dwight N. Hopkins

    Part Four: Black Theology and a Persevering Faith

  17. Living Stones in the Household of God
    M. Shawn Copeland

  18. On Keeping Faith with the Center
    Emilie M. Townes

  19. The Vocation of a Theologian
    James H. Cone

    Notes
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