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Divine Revelation and Human Liberation
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2020
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Harry H. Singleton is concerned in this work with the disparate ways blacks and whites have experienced American history and subsequently the way they have fashioned God’s communication to humans, formerly referred to as revelation. This book makes the case that while white Christian leaders have rooted God’s revelation either in an inherently inferior black humanity or a Christian faith void of black suffering, black theologians have rooted that same revelation in the plight of oppressed peoples in general and black people in particular, i.e., that God’s essence is found in the struggle for human liberation. With clarity and passion, Professor Singleton draws on the treatments of revelation of the most celebrated white theologians to demonstrate that the Christian theological enterprise has by intent and effect linked God’s revelation with black inferiority. Black theologians, on the other hand, have countered seeking a more liberating view of black humanity by making the case that the God of the Bible ultimately intervenes in contexts of human oppression not for their perpetuation but rather for their destruction. In this sense, Singleton pushes the reader to the conclusion that although the treatments of revelation between white and black theologians have been as different as their lived histories, the object of revelation has been the same – the humanity of black people! Thus, Singleton puts forth the bold argument that the racial struggle in America has not only been an historical struggle for determining the humanity of black people but a theological struggle for determining the humanity of black people as well. But far from remaining objective, Singleton takes the liberating path for black humanity and presses his way through the pages of this work seeking a new paradigm for revelation that no longer places God at the intersection of the white-black encounter as a condoner of racism or as a disinterested observer in the racial struggle but rather as an eternal light whose very nature is seen in the continuing quest for human liberation.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0297-4
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978-1-9787-0298-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
128
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One. Preliminary Considerations No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter Two. Birth of a Nation . . . and God No access Pages 13 - 32
Chapter Three. Racial Imagery and the Knowledge of God No access Pages 33 - 50
Chapter Four. Revelation and the Church No access Pages 51 - 68
Chapter Five. Revelation and the Construction of the Sacred No access Pages 69 - 86
Chapter Six. Revelation and Eschatology No access Pages 87 - 100
Chapter Seven. Toward a Revelation that Liberates No access Pages 101 - 116
