Indigenous Black Theology: Toward an African-Centered Theology of the African American Religious Experience [Paperback]

This work is concerned with the way Black Christian formation, because of the acceptance of universal, absolute, and exclusive Christian doctrines, seems to justify and even encourage anti-African sentiment.Series Editors Preface Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 'I once was lost, but now I'm found': The Origins of Black Christian Anti-African Sentiment The Only Way to Salvation: A Christological Critique Overcoming Religious and Cultural Amnesia: Who are the Ancestors? Indigenous Black Theology: Toward a Theology of the Ancestors The Dead are not Dead: The Future of Black Theology and Black Church Theologies Conclusion Notes Index

Jawanza Eric Clark's Akan-based criticism of Christian dogmatics will edify those who read him. He makes his case for an African-centered hermeneutics skillfully, knowledgeably, and in depth. - Josiah Young, professor of Systematic Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary

At long last, going beyond the lip-service of many Black theologians who have counted African Religion as a 'source' for the development of their discipline without drawing upon that heritage in specific ways, Jawanza Eric Clark has genuinely and creatively drawn upon the central African religious notion of 'ancestors' in the formulation of Black theological anthropology. This book shows how Black theologians can re-connect with their ancestral roots in ways that make important new developments possible in their message, invigorating a discipline bogged down and tired of repeating the categories formulated in those contexts from which liberation is sought. - Emmanuel Y. Lartey, professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling, Candler School of Theology

JAWANZA ERIC CLARK is Assistant Professor of Global Christianity at Manhattan College, USA.