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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Black Theology"”.
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Biblical hermeneutics and black theology in South Africa
… seeks to investigate the use of the Bible in black theology in South Africa. It begins by judging the extent to which black theology's use of the Bible represents a clear theoretical break with white western theology. The use of concepts like the “Word of God", “the universality of the …
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The Ethics of Vision and Black Theology and Experience
… method and correlate it with certain themes of black theology and experience. In so doing, I focus chiefly on Iris Murdoch to engage black thought and experience, as it is presented by Martin Luther King Jr. and Emilie Townes. An engagement with these two sets of materials enriches our …
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Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology
… a Christian religion? My claim is that enslaved blacks began to fashion a new religion by reinterpreting the Christianity given to them by their Christian slave masters. With their reinterpreted religion they combined their own novel folk culture, which, itself, comprised a mixture of common folk …
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Black theology : a quest for a true humanity in South Africa
… and political system in South Africa has caused blacks to experience their blackness negatively. Being black is the reason for their pain and suffering. This is not merely a political problem but in its deepest sense it is a theological problem because it has caused doubt in the hearts and minds …
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In search of an appropriate leadership ethos: a survey of selected publications that shaped the Black Theology movement
… and that they were deeply influenced by the black consciousness movement and, in association with that, by the emergence of black theology. In this respect, this research project explores the notions of ethics and leadership with a view to determine ways in which an appropriate leadership …
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James Cone's Black liberation theology and social change : an analysis of the rhetoric of dialectic.
… to his rhetorical/theological presentation of black liberation theology is examined. The role of conflict in social development is also stressed. Three of Cone's books demonstrate his theological pilgrimage and manifest the rhetorical power of "dialectic" when combined with unitary social …
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I Am Black and Beautiful: An Examiniaton of the Black Coptic Church as the Manifestation of Liberation Theology
<p>What does the Black Coptic Church have to offer the study of Black theology? This is the essential question this dissertation seeks to examine through a descriptive and constructive analysis. I submit the doctrinal formulation of black liberation theology is locatable within the Black Coptic …
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Christology from below : an examination of the black christology of Takatso Mofokeng in the context of the development of black theology in South Africa and in critical relation to the christological ethic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This thesis examines the framework for a Black Christology constructed by Takatso A.Mofokeng in The Crucified Among the Crossbearers (1983) and evaluates this work with the Christological assistance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The emergence of Black Theology in South Africa since the early 1970s is …
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The relationship between Christian education practices and lifestyle discipleship in African American churches
… by the members of those churches. The aspect of Black consciousness was also considered alongside the practices to examine what if any difference this makes in the relationship. The study detailed the research concern and posed five research questions to study the relationship. Discipleship was …
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Wayward Christians, Worldly Scriptures: Disarticulating Christianities in the Black Atlantic Public Sphere
… subset of lived Christian traditions in the black Atlantic world, and the ways in which black theology as a disciplinary formation has only partly included these competing constructions of Christianity in their account of marginalized and marooned peoples. This project will do three things. …
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Towards A Black Catholic Theology of Reconciliation-Tucker
… proposes and examines the development of a Black Catholic theology of reconciliation based on the 1984 Catholic document, "What We Have Seen and Heard: A Pastoral Letter on Evangelization from the Black Bishops of the United States." The bishops cite that African American Catholics have …
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Soul power: the Black church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1969-74
… Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black church played a sustained and pivotal role in the Black …
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A Discourse Analysis of the Centered and Critical Scholar-Activism of Martin Luther King Jr.
… Existentialism; (4) Social Activism/Service; (5) Theology/Activism; (6) Revolution/Leadership; (7) Black Ideology/Liberation/Black Theology; and (8) Anti-Militarism/Anti-Poverty. This author concludes that diversity of methodological approaches within Africana Studies is normal and that King's …
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A critique of the use of the "Exodus" metaphor by feminist theology
… from the perspective of a Feminist Liberation theology. It is recognised that Liberation theologies in general have adopted the theme of Israel's Exodus from Egypt as a paradigm for liberation from the particular forms of oppression being addressed by that liberation perspective (for example, …
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Christian Education as a Vehicle of the Liberation of a Black Child: A Critical Analysis of the Relevance of Christian Schools in Vhembe District, South Africa
… of Christian education in emancipating Black children from the existing challenges in Black communities. The Vhembe District in northern South Africa is remarkable for its unique socio-economic and cultural context, presenting considerable challenges and potential for Christian education …
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The necropolitical crisis of racial subjectivity in the South African postcolony: black consciousness as a technology of the self and the limits to transformation
… this thesis, I problematize whether Steve Biko's Black Consciousness Philosophy, reread as an affective and psychic Foucauldian technology of the self can operate as a strategy of psychic repair and transformation for pathological racialised subjects, produced by Necropolitical governmentality in …
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Purgatory's Place in The South: A Black Woman's Journey to the Promised Land
… 2001; Ladson-Billings, 2003; Stovall, 2005), Black feminist thought (Collins, 2000), and identity theory of oppression (Hardiman & Jackson, 1997) as the theoretical framework and autobiographical narrative inquiry (He, 2003; Moody,1968; Angleou, 1969; Hurston, 1965; hooks,1996; Jacobs, 1861) …
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African music in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa : a case study in the Western Cape
… that the C.U.C. co-ordinate research into "Black theology, African liturgy and furthermore, at the Fifth Annual Symposium on Ethnomusicology, 30 August 1984 - 1 September 1984, Alain Barker reported that "while all agreed that the international perspective the Conference provided was of …
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Tracing the passion of a black Christ: critical reflections on the iconographic revision and symbolic redeployment of the Stations of the Cross and Passion cycle by South African artists Sydney Kumalo, Sokhaya Charles Nkosi and Azaria Mbatha
In this research I consider ways in which black South African artists working during and after apartheid have both revised and symbolically redeployed the Stations of the Cross - and more broadly, the iconographic tradition of the Passion cycle. In so doing, I demonstrate the strategic application …
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