Practical Theology for Black Churches

Practical Theology for Black Churches
Author: Dale P. Andrews
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664224295

Exploring the concept of church as refuge, offers a way to bridge the gap between black theology, with its social and political concerns, and black churches, with their emphases on pastoral care and piety.

Black Practical Theology

Black Practical Theology
Author: Dale P. Andrews
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Black theology
ISBN: 9781602584358

Black Practical Theology is a gift to both teacher and student.

Pastoral Theology

Pastoral Theology
Author: James H. Harris
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 164
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451410433

A taut analysis of black liberation theology, connecting scholarship to practical congregational ministry. The chapters of this book focus on liberation and evangelism, the urban community, and black theology as well as church administration, worship, education, and self-esteem.

Postcolonializing God

Postcolonializing God
Author: Emmanuel Y. Lartey
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334029821

Postcolonializing God examines how African Christianity especially as a practical spirituality can be truly a postcolonial reality. The book offers thoughts as to how African Christians and by that token others who were colonial subjects, may practice a spirituality that bears the hallmarks of their authentic cultural heritage, even if that makes them distinctly different from Christians from the colonizing nations. There are themes in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Scriptures in which God's activities result in shattering hegemony, overthrowing the powerful, diversifying communities and affirming pluralism. These have by and large been ignored or downplayed in the formation of Christian communities by western and westernized Christians in Africa. The effect of this is that much of the practice of African Christians imitates that of a European Christianity of bygone times. Postcolonializing God charts a different course uplifting these ignored readings of scripture and identifying how they are expressed again by Africans who courageously seek through the practices of mysticism and African culture to portray a God whose actions liberate and diversify human experience. Postcolonializing God seeks to express the human diversity that seems to be the Creator's ongoing desire for the world and thereby to continue to manifest the manifold and diverse nature and wisdom of God. It is only as humans refuse to be created in the image of any other human beings, that the richness and complexity of the divine image will be more closely viewed throughout the world.

A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence

A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence
Author: Stephanie M. Crumpton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137370904

This book is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. Narratives provide an ethnographic snapshot of this violence, while raising concerns over whether or not existing paradigms for pastoral care and counseling are congruent with how many Black women approach healing.

A Redemption Song

A Redemption Song
Author: Delroy Hall
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334060745

This landmark text offers critical reflection and practical tool for pastors working and leading congregations where there is a large percentage of African Caribbean worshippers and other marginalised communities. Drawing from real-life pastoral examples, socio-political analysis and the theme of Eucharist as a means to human healing and restoration, it outlines and explores what a black British pastoral theology might look like.

For My People

For My People
Author: Cone, James, H.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2024-10-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Revolutionary Practical Theology

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Revolutionary Practical Theology
Author: Karen D. Crozier
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004438076

In Fannie Lou Hamer’s Revolutionary Practical Theology Crozier presents the civil and human rights life and legacy of Hamer through the lens of practical theology.

Down, Up, and Over

Down, Up, and Over
Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 316
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451407358

"First reconstructs the culutral matrix of African American religion, a total way of life formed by Protestantism, American culture, and the institution of slavery (1619-1865). Whites from Europe and Blacks from Africa arrived with specific, differing views of God, faith, and humanity. Hopkins recreates their worldviews and shows how white theology sought to remake African Americans into naturally inferior beings divinely ordained into subservience. The counter voice of enslaved blacks is the birth of the Spirit of liberation." -- Back cover.