Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology by Celucien L. Joseph (review)

In Theologizing in Black , Celucien Joseph interrelates various bodies of theological literature that are often kept separate. As Joseph explains, his book is a study of Black liberation theology in the United States in comparison to and engaged with African theology and Afro-Caribbean theology. He argues that each of these theological projects are subsumed under Africana Liberation Theology (16, 21). delineated five objectives. book African, African American, and Afro-Caribbean people’s relationship to God the distinction religious experience as the connection between them. the objective, Joseph’s thesis corollary seem to the following: Black experience in religion critical as it has paved the way for thinking theologically or theologizing in black. The idea that thinking to theological musing, and the are inseparable, but not the same phenomenon” (ix). the book in this crisscross of religious experience and theological thinking, what Joseph in black,” the divine-human relationship, as seen the Black perspective, affirms the beauty, dignity, and of Black people