Race : a theological account /
Arguing that at the root of modern racial thinking is the effort to constitute Western identity as overcoming its internal, Oriental Other, the Jews, in Race: A Theological Account this book engages this problem for what it is: a theological problem. This book contends that the modern race question...
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New York, New York :
Oxford University Press, Inc.,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the argument at a glance
- Prelude on Christology and race: Irenaeus as anti-gnostic intellectual
- Part I. Dramatizing Race: A Theological Account of Modernity:
- 1. The drama of race: toward a theological account of modernity
- 2. The great drama of religion: modernity, the Jews, and the theopolitics of race
- Part II. Engaging Race: The Field of African American Religious Studies:
- 3. Historicizing race: Albert J. Raboteau, religious history, and the ambiguities of blackness
- 4. Theologizing race: James H. Cone, liberation and the theological meaning of blackness
- 5. Signifying race: Charles H. Long and the opacity of blackness
- Interlude on Christology and race: Gregory of Nyssa as abolitionist intellectual
- Part III. Redirecting Race: Outlines of a Theological Program:
- 6. The birth of Christ: a theological reading of Briton Hammon's 1760 Narrative
- 7. The death of Christ: a theological reading of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative
- 8. The spirit of Christ: a theological reading of the writings of Jarena Lee
- Postlude on Christology and race: Maximus the Confessor as anticolonialist intellectual
- Epilogue: the discourse of theology in the twenty-first century.
