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God, Race, and History
Liberating Providence
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2021
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In crafting racial visions of the modern world, European thinkers appropriated the Christian doctrine of providence, constructing the idea of European humanity’s rule over the globe on the model of God’s rule over the universe. As a powerful ordering theory of the relationship between God and creation, time and space, self and other, the doctrine served as an intellectual framework for the theorization of whiteness, as the male European subject replaced Jesus Christ as the human being at the center of world history. Through an analysis of the work of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Barth, and James H. Cone, God, Race, and History examines this subversion of the Christian doctrine of providence, as well as subsequent attempts within modern Protestant theology to liberate the doctrine from its captivity to whiteness. It then develops a constructive political theology of providence in conversation with Delores S. Williams and M. Shawn Copeland, discerning Jesus Christ at work through the Holy Spirit in the struggles of ordinary, overlooked, and oppressed human creatures to survive and to carve out a flourishing life for themselves, their communities, and their world.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1955-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1956-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
198
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 1 The Problem of Providence in Contemporary Theology No access Pages 11 - 36
Chapter 2 G. W. F. Hegel No access Pages 37 - 66
Chapter 3 Karl Barth No access Pages 67 - 106
Chapter 4 James H. Cone No access Pages 107 - 136
Chapter 5 Liberating Providence No access Pages 137 - 166
