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Divine Revelation and Human Liberation (Hardcover)
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Divine Revelation and Human Liberation (Hardcover)
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Harry H. Singleton is concerned in this work with the disparate
ways blacks and whites have experienced American history and
subsequently the way they have fashioned God's communication to
humans, formerly referred to as revelation. This book makes the
case that while white Christian leaders have rooted God's
revelation either in an inherently inferior black humanity or a
Christian faith void of black suffering, black theologians have
rooted that same revelation in the plight of oppressed peoples in
general and black people in particular, i.e., that God's essence is
found in the struggle for human liberation. With clarity and
passion, Professor Singleton draws on the treatments of revelation
of the most celebrated white theologians to demonstrate that the
Christian theological enterprise has by intent and effect linked
God's revelation with black inferiority. Black theologians, on the
other hand, have countered seeking a more liberating view of black
humanity by making the case that the God of the Bible ultimately
intervenes in contexts of human oppression not for their
perpetuation but rather for their destruction. In this sense,
Singleton pushes the reader to the conclusion that although the
treatments of revelation between white and black theologians have
been as different as their lived histories, the object of
revelation has been the same - the humanity of black people! Thus,
Singleton puts forth the bold argument that the racial struggle in
America has not only been an historical struggle for determining
the humanity of black people but a theological struggle for
determining the humanity of black people as well. But far from
remaining objective, Singleton takes the liberating path for black
humanity and presses his way through the pages of this work seeking
a new paradigm for revelation that no longer places God at the
intersection of the white-black encounter as a condoner of racism
or as a disinterested observer in the racial struggle but rather as
an eternal light whose very nature is seen in the continuing quest
for human liberation.
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