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James Baldwin's Understanding of God - Overwhelming Desire and Joy (Hardcover)
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James Baldwin's Understanding of God - Overwhelming Desire and Joy (Hardcover)
Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
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James Baldwin's Understanding of God: Overwhelming Desire and Joy
focuses on Baldwin's experiences as a gifted black writer who
fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual
relationships. Baldwin's God is a 'mysteriously impersonal' force
he calls love- 'something . . . like a fire, like the wind,
something which can change you.' For Baldwin, 'To be with God is
really to be involved with some enormous, overwhelming desire, and
joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.' He
writes, 'I conceive of my own life as a journey toward something I
do not understand, which in the going toward, makes me better. I
conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means
to control others.'
Young covers James Baldwin's life from his mid-teens to his death
through accounts and analyses of his essays and novels. Sometimes
his 'theology' - what he has to say about his 'God' - comes
straight from his text; other times Young deduces it from his
non-fiction prose and the implications of his novels and their
protagonists. Josiah Young places those works in the context of
several historic events that were taking place in the United States
at that time.
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