Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v6i1.12462
Andre E. Brooks-Key
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v7i1.12466
J. U. Young III
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Pub Date : 2024-02-28DOI: 10.52214/btpp.v1i1.12450
Clifford Green
Bonhoeffer’s selfinterpretation in relation to Williams’ reading of the Harlem Renaissance.Influences of Bonhoeffer’s Union Seminary theological discussion group of friends, and thepreaching of Adam Clayton Powell Sr. Question: the relative impacts on Bonhoeffer of theSermon on the Mount and the Harlem Renaissance. Bonhoeffer’s newly found 1934 letter toGandhi is a development of his 1931 thinking in New York. Reviewing Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesusposes questions regarding Bonhoeffer and the proletaria t in Germany, and also his theologicalconcept of Stellvertretung . Query: Why no reference to Josiah Young’s No Difference in theFare
朋霍费尔的自我诠释与威廉姆斯对哈莱姆文艺复兴的解读的关系；朋霍费尔的联合神学院神学讨论小组的朋友们以及老亚当-克莱顿-鲍威尔（Adam Clayton Powell Sr.）的布道的影响。问题：《登山宝训》和哈莱姆文艺复兴对朋霍费尔的相对影响。新发现的朋霍费尔 1934 年写给甘地的信是他 1931 年在纽约的思想的发展。回顾朋霍费尔的《黑耶稣》提出了有关朋霍费尔和德国无产者以及他的神学概念 "Stellvertretung "的问题。疑问：为什么没有提到约西亚-杨的《无差别的福利》（No Difference in the Fare）？
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The figure of Hagar is a critical example of a marginalized woman of color whose actions and relationship to God models the course of theological liberation for the oppressed; but her story must first be her own. Examining the under-explored details of Hagar’s story and voice renders them (scripturally and diasporically) significant to broadly understanding the marginalized lives of women of color. Placing the Hagaritic findings and interpretive moves of Delores Williams in dialogue with Arabic, African, and Africandescended literature and religious scholarship allows for a broader understanding of Hagar’s experience to inform the lives of those who draw connection to her story.
{"title":"The One Who Sees Me: Finding Hagar through Literary Hermeneutics and Religious Interpretive Agency","authors":"Oluwatomisin Oredein","doi":"10.52214/btpp.v4i1.3869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52214/btpp.v4i1.3869","url":null,"abstract":"The figure of Hagar is a critical example of a marginalized woman of color whose actions and relationship to God models the course of theological liberation for the oppressed; but her story must first be her own. Examining the under-explored details of Hagar’s story and voice renders them (scripturally and diasporically) significant to broadly understanding the marginalized lives of women of color. Placing the Hagaritic findings and interpretive moves of Delores Williams in dialogue with Arabic, African, and Africandescended literature and religious scholarship allows for a broader understanding of Hagar’s experience to inform the lives of those who draw connection to her story.","PeriodicalId":517966,"journal":{"name":"Black Theology Papers Project","volume":"28 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140420140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper gestures towards a womanist response to a recent conversation with a friend, indicative of many black women’s experiences of sexual trauma and struggle to reconcile their identity as black women, Christians, and survivors. I put in conversation black feminist writings, womanist ethics and theology, and black women’s poetry to gesture towards a womanist response to sexual trauma. This paper makes three primary claims. First, I assert that womanist theology and ethics provides a firm foundation for Christian responses to sexual trauma. Second, I argue for contemporary womanist ethics as a crucial dialogue partner for sexual trauma survivors. And finally, I posit the moral knowledge gleaned from three black women’s poems as guides for womanist responses to sexual trauma.
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This paper argues that Thomas Merton’s under-appreciated engagement with James Baldwin reveals Baldwin to be an essential resource for a theological account of mass incarceration and the spiritual sustenance of ati6on to dismantle the “New Jim Crow.” Merton highlights the religious insight of Baldwin’s conviction that white Americans are ravaged by a spiritual imprisonment that is concretized in distinct historical dynamics and which spell an apocalyptic foreboding. White Americans are, in Baldwin’s words, “trapped in a history which they do not understand.” With attention to the methodological and ethical pimalls of reading Baldwin theologically, and situating this exchange in the broader context of black theology and theological/spiritual responses to mass incarcera6on, it is argued that Baldwin produces essential and unique religious insights for interrupting the contemporary criminalization of black bodies. Merton's additions to Baldwin's thought is generative for future possibilities, particularly with Merton's development of a more robust mysticism.
{"title":"“Trapped in a History Which They Do Not Understand:” Reading James Baldwin with Thomas Merton, Toward a Spiritual Theological Interpretation of Mass Incarceration","authors":"S. K. Johnson","doi":"10.52214/btpp.v3i1.3873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52214/btpp.v3i1.3873","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that Thomas Merton’s under-appreciated engagement with James Baldwin reveals Baldwin to be an essential resource for a theological account of mass incarceration and the spiritual sustenance of ati6on to dismantle the “New Jim Crow.” Merton highlights the religious insight of Baldwin’s conviction that white Americans are ravaged by a spiritual imprisonment that is concretized in distinct historical dynamics and which spell an apocalyptic foreboding. White Americans are, in Baldwin’s words, “trapped in a history which they do not understand.” With attention to the methodological and ethical pimalls of reading Baldwin theologically, and situating this exchange in the broader context of black theology and theological/spiritual responses to mass incarcera6on, it is argued that Baldwin produces essential and unique religious insights for interrupting the contemporary criminalization of black bodies. Merton's additions to Baldwin's thought is generative for future possibilities, particularly with Merton's development of a more robust mysticism.","PeriodicalId":517966,"journal":{"name":"Black Theology Papers Project","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140418590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper will explore the role that black theology and black-produced films of 2016 play in creating a narrative that seeks freedom for African Americans in the United States during this age of brutality and mass incarceration. Starting with Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Duvernay's 13th, this paper illustrates how the media and the legal system have worked together to create a culture of criminality still imposed on black youth. Theologians Cone and Brown Douglas rely on the concepts of God's freedom, God's revolutionary love and faithful action to resist such a hostile culture, but two black-produced films of 2016 also rely on the concept of freedom in the face of criminality. Birth of a Nation not only to shows a positive portrayal of black men in the media, but Moonlight illustrates the complexity of growing up in communities that are repressed by this hostile culture.
{"title":"Freedom in an Age of Repression: The Role of Black Theology and Black-Produced Media in Forging Freedom","authors":"Wendy M. Arce","doi":"10.52214/btpp.v3i1.3871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52214/btpp.v3i1.3871","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will explore the role that black theology and black-produced films of 2016 play in creating a narrative that seeks freedom for African Americans in the United States during this age of brutality and mass incarceration. Starting with Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Duvernay's 13th, this paper illustrates how the media and the legal system have worked together to create a culture of criminality still imposed on black youth. Theologians Cone and Brown Douglas rely on the concepts of God's freedom, God's revolutionary love and faithful action to resist such a hostile culture, but two black-produced films of 2016 also rely on the concept of freedom in the face of criminality. Birth of a Nation not only to shows a positive portrayal of black men in the media, but Moonlight illustrates the complexity of growing up in communities that are repressed by this hostile culture.","PeriodicalId":517966,"journal":{"name":"Black Theology Papers Project","volume":"7 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140426364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Careful readers of the theologian, mystic, and minister, Howard Thurman, have noted that his work grappled with the major social issues of his day—namely racism, sexism, economic inequality, and other forms of oppression. Indeed, in works such as Jesus and the Disinherited (1949), Luminous Darkness (1965), and Deep River and The Negro Speaks of Life and Death (1975), Thurman pushed readers to engage oppression—particularly racial oppression—as an issue that people of faith needed to engage. Though Thurman’s more popular book-length works have gained attention from religious scholars, his essays “Mysticism and Social Change” (1939)—found in Volume two of the Howard Thurman Papers—and “Mysticism and the Experience of Love” (1961) expose how Thurman’s mysticism could be used as a tool in the fight against oppression.
{"title":"Toward Understanding a Black Spiritual Left: the Spirituality of Howard Thurman and the Black Lives Matter Movement","authors":"Larry Perry","doi":"10.52214/btpp.v3i1.3872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52214/btpp.v3i1.3872","url":null,"abstract":"Careful readers of the theologian, mystic, and minister, Howard Thurman, have noted that his work grappled with the major social issues of his day—namely racism, sexism, economic inequality, and other forms of oppression. Indeed, in works such as Jesus and the Disinherited (1949), Luminous Darkness (1965), and Deep River and The Negro Speaks of Life and Death (1975), Thurman pushed readers to engage oppression—particularly racial oppression—as an issue that people of faith needed to engage. Though Thurman’s more popular book-length works have gained attention from religious scholars, his essays “Mysticism and Social Change” (1939)—found in Volume two of the Howard Thurman Papers—and “Mysticism and the Experience of Love” (1961) expose how Thurman’s mysticism could be used as a tool in the fight against oppression.","PeriodicalId":517966,"journal":{"name":"Black Theology Papers Project","volume":"24 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140427446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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