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The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity

Thabiti M. Anyabwile (Author)

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Foreword by Mark A. Noll

Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 255
Publisher: InterVarsity
ISBN#: 9780830828272

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Description: Who were Jupiter Hammon, Lemuel Haynes and Daniel Alexander Payne? And what do they have in common with Martin Luther King Jr., Howard Thurman and James Cone? All of these were African American Christian theologians, yet their theologies are, in many ways, worlds apart.

In this book, Thabiti Anyabwile offers a challenging and provocative assessment of the history of African American Christian theology, from its earliest beginnings to the present. He argues trenchantly that the modern fruit of African American theology has fallen far from the tree of its early predecessors. In doing so, Anyabwile closely examines the theological commitments of prominent African American theologians throughout American history. Chapter by chapter, he traces what he sees as the theological decline of African American theology from one generation to the next, concluding with an unflinching examination of several contemporary figures. Replete with primary texts and illustrations, this book is a gold mine for any reader interested in the history of African American Christianity.

"An impressive array of historical and theological reflections on the African American church's religious tradition. Anyabwile presents a cogent argument that places the demand on the church's leadership, its theologians and its laypeople to continually evaluate its biblical and theological foundations for both the church's self-understanding as the people of God, and its objectives as God's agents in the world."
—Bruce L. Fields, associate professor of biblical and systematic theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and author of Black Theology: Three Crucial Questions for the Evangelical Church

"It is remarkable that, to my knowledge, there has never been a book that attempts what Thabiti Anyabwile's The Decline of African American Theology attempts. For historical purposes, the book makes an unusually valuable contribution with its full account of the course of African American Christian thought. Theologically, it makes another signal contribution with its critique of the general development of that thought. For both historical and theological reasons, this is a very important volume. . . . Because I have already learned so much from its pages, I am delighted to recommend it wholeheartedly to others."
—From the foreword by Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Table of Contents
Foreword by Mark Noll
Acknowledgments
Figures
Introduction

1 "I Once Was Blind but Now I See"
The Doctrine of Revelation in the African American Experience

2 "A Father to the Fatherless"
The African American Doctrine of God

3 "Ain’t I a Man?"
African American Anthropology

4 "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"
The Christology of African Americans

5 "What Must I Do to Be Saved?"
African American Soteriology

6 "Gettin’ in De Spirit"
Pneumatology in the African American Experience

Afterword
Bibliography
Subject Index
Scripture Index
The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity

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