Description: Walk Together Children: Black and Womanist Theologies,
Church, and Theological Education draws on the long religious,
cultural, and singing history of blacks in the U.S.A. Through the
slavery and emancipation days until now, black song has both
nurtured and enhanced African American life as a collective whole.
Communality has always included a variety of existential
experiences. What has kept this enduring people in a corporate
process is their walking together through good times and bad,
relying on what W. E. B. DuBois called their ""dogged strength"" to
keep ""from being torn asunder."" Somehow and someway they intuited
from historical memory or received from transcendental revelation
that keeping on long enough on the road would yield ultimate fruit
for the journey. Endorsements: ""This volume flips the script in
all the right ways. Hopkins and Thomas collect essays that
collectively invert the ways that black and womanist theologies are
usually constructed. Men speak to issues that womanists first
articulated. Women write about the future of black men. Professors,
clergy, and lay people engage academic theology together, and the
conversations are cross-generational . . . T]his volume strongly
refutes any accusations that black theology is merely academic.""
--Monica A. Coleman Claremont School of Theology ""This work
represents an important gathering of the best thinkers from the
Black Church, the Academy, and the Black community who come
together to address the vital issue of Black flourishing in the
twenty-first century. Their specific focus on the role that
theological education, as it happens in the academy and the Church,
plays in this project makes this timely and essential reading for
all scholars, practitioners, and activists. This book will become a
classic and be widely used in seminary classrooms and sanctuaries.
--Stephen G. Ray Jr. Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
""Walk Together Children represents an historic moment of coming
together in black religious life and thought of those who live,
preach, teach, and think a phenomenology of the sacred self. This
critical contribution to the field not only reflects upon, but is
in itself a theology of ingenuity . . . Through unexpected
reversals of authorship and themes, the contributors push the
bounds of theology in all its forms with provocative insights and
challenges for the religious imaginations of both church and
academy."" --Andrea C. White Emory University Candler School of
Theology ""Walk Together Children is a Sankofa Moment reminding
pilgrims on the journey that the unity and resilience of enslaved
Africans in the Americas is a testimony to the human capacity for
hope and struggle to participate in the Reigndom of God. This book
is a welcomed resource for conversations about the rebuilding of
family and community, whether these conversations take place in the
Church, the wider community, or the academy."" --Marjorie Lewis
United Theological College of the West Indies ""Walk Together
Children moves with such syncopation and collaborative grace,
creating 'new moves with new angles' in black and womanist
theological discourse. This compilation of courageous and
thought-provoking essays, spoken by three generations of scholars,
preachers, and the pew, is a gripping and compelling read It
invigorates renewed energy and offers timeless possibilities in
church and academy relations."" --Renee K. Harrison author of
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
""Walk Together Children represents the very best of contemporary
African American black and womanist theology in dialogue. It is
committed and passionate text that illustrates the continued
vibrancy and praxis of these complimentary disciplines as we step
bravely into this new century. In bringing together a remarkable
cast of players from the academy, the church, and the pew, this
hugely impressive text will be a must read for many years to come.
I wholeheart
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