Do Black Lives Matter?
eBook - ePub

Do Black Lives Matter?

How Christian Scriptures Speak to Black Empowerment

  1. 318 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Do Black Lives Matter?

How Christian Scriptures Speak to Black Empowerment

About this book

In this book Lisa Bowens and Dennis R. Edwards collate a virtual manifesto on the way the Bible serves as inspiration, theological grist, and even the language needed to be thechange to people of good faith everywhere. The authors of this book challenge the forces of racism that are so deeply entrenched in church and society today offering prophetic insight into Black resilience and the historic and ongoing importance of Scripture to that resilience. The authorsalso forefront the significance of Scripture to theBlack struggle for justice by bringing together here prominent, gifted Black scholars inbiblicalstudies, ethics, history, and theology, as their work and writing contribute so much to the ongoing struggle against injustice. The book will offer both biblical reflection celebrating an African American theological reading and a prophetic call to arms by means of sermons and other reflections.The book includes contributions from: Jaime L. Waters, JenniferKaalund, Angela Parker Reggie, Williams Antonia Daymond, Brian Bantum, Danjuma Gibson, David Daniels, Y. Joy Harris-Smith, Vince Bantu, Marcia Clarke, ValerieLandfair, Antipas Harris, Luke Powery, Efrem Smith, Donyelle McCray, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. Section One: Biblical Analysis of Blackness and Expressions of Black Empowerment
  7. Section Two: Theological Reflections and Expressions of Black Empowerment
  8. Section Three: Sermons on Blackness