Prophesy Deliverance! 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition

An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity

Cornell West

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780664265656
• eBook ISBN: 9781646982882
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

In this, his premiere work, Cornel West challenges African Americans to consider the incorporation of Marxism into their theological perspectives, thereby adopting the mindset that it is class more so than race that renders one powerless in America. His work reflects political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own formative life experiences. Decades later, his arguments continue to capture the theological imagination of many and influence the critical engagement of generations of scholars.

In this fortieth anniversary edition, West invites six prominent scholars—whose respective work are grounded in various aspects of black political, cultural, and theological thought—into dialogue with this work, each writing one chapter plus a foreword by Jonathan Lee Walton. Continuing and expanding on the revolutionary discourses that West introduced in the first published work, each new essay provides nuanced lens for thinking about movements of liberation in today's African American communities

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by Jonathan Lee Walton
• Preface to the Fortieth Anniversary Expanded Edition
• Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
• Acknowledgments (1982)
• Introduction: The Sources and Tasks of Afro-American Critical Thought
• 1. American Africans in Conflict: Alienation in an Insecure Culture
• 2. A Genealogy of Modern Racism
• 3. The Four Traditions of Response
• 4. Prophetic Afro-American Christian Thought and Progressive Marxism
• 5. Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
• Responses
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index