Dwight Hopkins

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  Being Human : Race Culture And Religion

  $29.00

  Introduction: Who Are We?

  1.Contemporary Models Of Theological Anthropology
  2.Culture: Labor, Aesthetic, And Spirit
  3.Selves And The Self: I Am Because We Are
  4.Race: Nature And Nurture
  5.Conclusion As Introduction

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  Dwight Hopkins, whose important work in Black Theology has mediated class theological concerns through the prism of African American culture, here offers a fresh take on theological anthropology. Rather than defined “the human” as one eternal or inviolable essence, however, Hopkins looks to the multiple and conflicting notions of the human in contemporary thought, and particularly three key variables: culture, self, and race. Hopkins’ critical reframing of these concepts firmly locates human endeavor, development, transcendence, and liberation in the particular messiness of struggle and strife.

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  Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue (Expanded)

  $35.00

  Drawing on slave narratives found in forty-one volumes of interviews and one hundred autobiographies by former slaves, these contributors explore how enslaved African Americans received the often oppressive faith of their masters but transformed it into a gospel of liberation. This classic work demonstrates how an authentic black theology of liberation today must listen to the divine spirit that once fed and continues to feed the black religious experience. This second edition includes three additional provocative essays.

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  Down Up And Over

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  The lives of enslaved African Americans, Dwight Hopkins contends, are a foundational source of liberating faith and practice for African Americans today. Down, Up, and Over draws on their religious experience, and the example of their faith and witness, to develop a constructive theology of liberation

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