Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v8i1.12516
Grant Kaplan
This paper reviews Kelly Brown Douglas’s Resurrecting Hope and brings it into conversation with certain themes in Catholic theology and with the theory of the scapegoat mechanism articulated by the French intellectual, René Girard.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v9i1.12518
Andrew Santana Kaplan
This paper considers John Brown as a paradigmatic respondent to James Cone’s and FrankWilderson’s charges for Humanity to “become Black.” More precisely, this paper takes DuBois’s reading of John Brown as a meditation upon what Nahum Chandler describes as the “soulof an ex White man.” For Du Bois, Brown’s taking up of the “Negro question” proceeded toshape his entire existence. By drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s messianic conception of “formof life” and Afropessimism’s elaboration of the “Negro question” through the paradigm ofsocial death, this paper offers a reading of Du Bois’s Brown as a form of life toward socialdeath
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v8i1.12515
Kurt Buhring
Anthony Reddie has said that while Black Theology has always spent a great deal of time and effort on Jesus, there has been “comparatively little on the Holy Spirit.” Recognizing this reality, one hope of this paper is to invigorate and contribute to a conversation on the Spirit in Black Theology. After a brief examination of the intriguing work of Jawanza Eric Clark, who challenges taken-for-granted views of original sin and Christocentrism, the paper will explore understandings of spirit(s) within select religions of Africa and the African diaspora. The study will build from these pieces with a consideration of possibilities for constructive pneumatologies within contemporary Black Theology. The paper’s interest in the Holy Spirit is concerned primarily with the relationship between divine power and presence and human potential and responsibility, and especially in creative formulations of this dynamic that call for human action toward social justice, wholeness, and positive transformation.
安东尼-雷迪（Anthony Reddie）曾说过，黑人神学总是在耶稣身上花费大量的时间和精力，但在圣灵方面却 "相对较少"。认识到这一现实，本文的一个希望就是为黑人神学中关于圣灵的对话注入活力并做出贡献。贾万扎-埃里克-克拉克（Jawanza Eric Clark）挑战了人们习以为常的原罪观和基督中心主义，本文在简要研究了他引人入胜的作品之后，将探讨非洲和非洲散居地的某些宗教中对圣灵的理解。本研究将以这些作品为基础，考虑在当代黑人神学中构建气神学的可能性。本文对圣灵的兴趣主要在于神圣的力量和存在与人类的潜能和责任之间的关系，特别是对这种动态的创造性表述，这种动态要求人类采取行动，实现社会正义、整体性和积极的转变。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v9i1.12519
Antavius Franklin
This paper argues that there exists no ontotheological grounds for black life. As such, blackreligion and, by extension, black theology should consider the ways in which black life is life thatis lived ungrounded. The central claim of this paper notes that categories such as the good life,the human, freedom, and citizenship are inadequate to account for the reality of black life amidthe totalizing effects of antiblackness. As such, black theology should position itself to imagineblack theology beyond the confines of the science of faith and other colonial markers of life andhumanity. In essence, this paper seeks to make two theological claims/interventions; first, itquestions the use of the category of the human as a liberatory figure through which the blackcan attain freedom. Second, it throws into crisis the notion of eschatological time and salvationand the inability or difficulty to account for the black who has been rendered simultaneously inand out of time. Ultimately, this paper wants to think with black feminist futurity and Afrofuturistdiscourse as generative tools to imagine black life beyond the confines of antiblackness, if at allpossible.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v9i1.12517
Nathaniel Jung-Chul Lee
Ten years ago, in an article for The Christian Century, theologian Jonathan Tran heraldedthe work of three black theologians J. Kameron Carter, Willie J. Jennings, and Brian Bantumas inaugurating a “new black theology.” According to Tran, these three thinkers represented “ amajor theological shift that [would] if taken as seriously as it deserve[d] change the facenot only of black theol ogy but theology as a whole.” Now that ten years have passed, thispaper asks: Has it? And arguing that it has not, I offer reflections on why it has not. At thecenter of my argument will be a critique of the way Carter and Bantum offered their revisedun derstanding of racial identity and hybridity by reimagining the identity Jesus throughmulatto/a bodies and persons. This, I will claim, is a dead end. It is a project that fails todo the very thing it sets out to do, and ultimately, collapses in on itsel f. My aim in makingthis critique is less refutation and more redirection. More specifically, I will hope to resolvesome of the problematic impulses in their appeal to mulatto identity, and in so doing, clearthe way for a new direction in Black Theology.
十年前，神学家乔纳森-特兰（Jonathan Tran）在为《基督教世纪》（The Christian Century）撰写的一篇文章中预言，三位黑人神学家卡梅隆-卡特（J. Kameron Carter）、威利-詹宁斯（Willie J. Jennings）和布赖恩-班图姆（Brian Bantum）的工作开创了 "新黑人神学"。特兰认为，这三位思想家代表着 "神学的重大转变，如果得到应有的重视，[将会]改变的不仅是黑人神学的面貌，而且是整个神学的面貌"。"十年过去了，本文不禁要问：它发生了吗？它改变了吗？我认为没有，并对其原因进行了反思。我的论点的核心是批判卡特和班图姆通过混血儿的身体和人重新想象耶稣的身份，从而对种族身份和混血性的理解进行修正的方式。我将声称，这是一个死胡同。我提出这一批评的目的与其说是反驳，不如说是重新引导。更具体地说，我希望通过对黑白混血身份的诉求来解决一些有问题的冲动，从而为黑人神学的新方向扫清道路。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v6i1.12463
J. Floyd-Thomas
The year 2019 marked several significant and substantially intertwined anniversaries. The same year that marked the 400th year since the earliest arrival of “Twenty and more negroes” were brought by force and sold into bondage as human chattel into the floundering Jamestown colony in 1619 was also remembered as the 50th anniversary of the debut publication of late theologian James Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power and, to no lesser extent, the “Black Manifesto,” a boldly prophetic document that sparked a landmark debate about the nexus of race, religion, and reparations. This paper explores the common ground between Cone's Black liberation theology and Forman's presentation of the “Black Manifesto.” On the one hand, Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power was the first academic treatise to merge the contemporaneous struggles for racial, political, and socioeconomic equality with the critical concerns of Christian systematic theology. By offering a forcefully prophetic call for a theology rooted in the Black experience, this pioneering work established Black liberation theology as an undeniable force within theological education and Black church praxis. On the other hand, prepared largely by James Forman in conjunction with the League of Black Revolutionary Workers, this statement endorsed by the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC) on April 26, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. Reflecting its genesis at the tail end of the 1960s within that sociopolitical crucible, the “Black Manifesto” called on white religious institutions across the theological and denominational spectrum to pay $500 million in reparations for the historic ravages of Black chattel slavery in the United States as well as the ensuing structural oppression that still impacted people of African descent contemporaneously. Within this legendary statement, the manifesto outlined a visionary programmatic agenda for how this money would be used to redress the systematic and systemic forms of oppression that plagued Black women, men, and children as a result of centuries of both enslavement and segregation. In an effort to recognize and engage the importance of both cultural artifacts, this paper will compare and contrast the theo-historical significance and impact of Cone’s and Forman’s respective contributions to Black religious thought as well as the lessons to be gleaned from their mutual legacies within the ongoing scope of Black Church Studies and the broader Black theology project.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v7i1.12465
David G. Latimore
Abstract— This paper makes the case that the deradicalization of African American religious institutions and the significant implications of this deradicalization often has been misdiagnosed through a failure to fully account for the influence of economic ideology on the formation and operation of African American religious institutions. While there has always been an economic critiques offered within historical and theological interrogations of African American religious institutions, those interrogations have most often focused on an examination of the instrumental value of African American religious institutions on economic participation. Research has often challenged whether African American religious institutions have been efficacious in facilitating increasing economic participation within the communities these institutions serve. What this paper offers is a consideration of African American religious institutions as the objects of economic forces and an examination of the endogenous theology of neoliberalism for understanding and responding to the complicity of some Black churched in the economic exploitation of African American poor communities.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v7i1.12464
David Justice
In this paper I examine what I call the tradition of Kingdom Violence, which collectively names those who resist the forces of oppression in our world. I first explore the contours of Kingdom Violence in the theology and activism of Nat Turner and Sojourner Truth, and then argue that a kind of Kingdom Violence is present in Martin Luther King Jr.’s theological praxis despite his disavowal of physical violence. King recognized that much of what we have come to think of as normal and natural must be destroyed for the Beloved Community to be fully realized in our world.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v5i1.12461
Matthew Vega
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