Here is a study in theological social ethics for North American black churches. It aims to present a conception of liberty/freedom and a liberating social ethic, both relentlessly informed by a black churchly understanding of ourselves in relation to God. There are two main questions: How should we conceive of liberty/freedom? and What should contemporary black churches do in order to contribute to the continuing struggle for liberty? Answers derive from consulting black church history, black theology and the philosophy of black power. Also, the descriptions, predictions and public policy prescriptions of liberal and black sociologies are evaluated from a black churchly perspective. Rightly conceived, liberty/freedom includes comprehensive social-economic-political empowerment and righteous relations to God and others. Accordingly, we church folk should empower the people through an ethic of breaking bread. The religious and social stakes are high. Where bread is not broken, Jesus is not recognized, God is not served, and the people are not free.

Empower the People: Social Ethics for the African-American Church (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Studies in North American Black R)

History

Walker, Theodore

World

iUniverse

Mothership Connections: A Black Atlantic Synthesis of Neoclassical Metaphysics and Black Theology (Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought)

Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics. Bringing a black Atlantic approach to constructive postmodern efforts to understand and transcend modern worldviews and modern world orders, Mothership Connections draws upon the work of scholars in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles H. Long, Alfred North Whitehead, and Charles Hartshorne. The author shows that connections to the originating influences of transatlantic slavery and black Atlantic experiences are essential to any adequate account of modernity and postmodernity. He also argues that metaphysics is essential to theology and moral theory, synthesizing neoclassical metaphysics and black theology to develop a black Atlantic account of metaphysical aspects of struggle, power, and ethical deliberation.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

State Univ of New York Pr

Examining the multiple problems that face the African-American community, Walker challenges the Black church to build on its strengths and fashion a social ethics of both survival and resistance. He maintains that "Black Power" is the essential prerequisite for a valid social ethic in the African-American community.

Empower the People: Social Ethics for the African-American Church (BISHOP HENRY MCNEAL TURNER/SOJOURNER TRUTH SERIES IN BLACK RELIGION)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Orbis Books

As advanced by astronomer-cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomy, biology, astrobiology, astrophysics, and cosmology converge agreeably with natural theology. In The Big Bang and God, these interdisciplinary convergences are developed by an astronomer collaborating with a theologian.

The Big Bang and God: An Astro-Theology

Wickramasinghe, Chandra

Science & Math

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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