In this intimate and compelling look at black theology, Dwight N. Hopkins asserts that in order to calm the raging waters of a "me-first" way of life and growing racial intolerance, we need to embrace the values of both the heart and the head. In a post-Civil Rights, post-affirmative action era, Hopkins challenges the African American community to speak through race to the larger issues of America while urging the diverse segments of the entire nation to continually deal with race. From a perspective of black theology or a spirituality of liberation, he sees the healing of the nation's racial divide in a quest for a healthy community and believes that all people, regardless of race, must join together in forging a new common wealth. Heart and Head navigates us between the seemingly polar opposites of either the personal or the political, reform or revolution, and economics or culture. Offering a detailed perspective on a new racial, gender, and economic democracy in the United States, Hopkins illustrates that black theology can be the key to personal and global liberation.
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"... Hopkins has never disappointed the intelligent and compassionate reader...with this volume...he adds another..."--Library Journal
"An accessible introduction to black theology of liberation for non-specialists, this is at the same time a fine introduction to liberation theology in general. On both counts, it should interest plenty of readers outside as well as in the African American community."--Booklist
"An accessible introduction to black theology of liberation for non-specialists, this is at the same time a fine introduction to liberation theology in general. On both counts, it should interest plenty of readers outside as well as in the African American community."--Booklist
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An ordained Baptist minister, Dwight N. Hopkins holds Master of Divinity and Master of Philosophy, and two Ph.D. degrees from Union Theological Seminary and from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Hopkins has authored or edited nearly a dozen books, such as Down, Up & Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology, and he is co-editor, with Linda Thomas, of the Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice series (Palgrave). He lives with his family on Chicago's south side.
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Black theology of liberation means thinking about how the spirit of liberation works with poor black folk spiritually and materially, individually and collectively, and privately and publicy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black sacred life, monopoly capitalist corporations, new common wealth, black theology, womanist theology, black theologians, poor black folk, black faith, white male culture, capitalist wealth, structural poverty, preferential option, poor black women, constructive theology, interfaith dialogue Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, United States, Third World, Jesus Christ, North American, Latin America, Baby Suggs, King James, West African, Gustavo Gutierrez, Alice Walker, Jesus the Christ, New York, Pacific Islands, Black American Perspective New!
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Black theology of liberation means thinking about how the spirit of liberation works with poor black folk spiritually and materially, individually and collectively, and privately and publicy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black sacred life, monopoly capitalist corporations, new common wealth, black theology, womanist theology, black theologians, poor black folk, black faith, white male culture, capitalist wealth, structural poverty, preferential option, poor black women, constructive theology, interfaith dialogue Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, United States, Third World, Jesus Christ, North American, Latin America, Baby Suggs, King James, West African, Gustavo Gutierrez, Alice Walker, Jesus the Christ, New York, Pacific Islands, Black American Perspective New!
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- A Black Theology of Liberation (Ethics and Society) by James H. Cone on 6 pages
- Black Theology & Black Power by James H. Cone on 5 pages
- Black Theology: 1966-1979 v. 1: A Documentary History on 5 pages
- For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church (The Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner Studies in North American Black Religion, Vol. 1) by James H. Cone on 4 pages
- A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation (15th Anniversary Edition with New Introduction by Author) by Gustavo Gutierrez in Front Matter, page 63, and Back Matter
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