J Kameron Carter

Race Theological Account C

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Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking monograph promises to open a new chapter in black theology. J. Kameron Carter argues that black theology's intellectual impoverishment in the Church and the academy is the result of its theologically shaky presuppositions, which are based largely on liberal Protestant convictions. He critiques the work of such noted scholars as Albert Raboteau, Charles Long and James Cone, and argues that black theology must rebuild itself on completely new theological foundations. He lays these foundations by means of a remarkable synthesis between African-American religious history and Christian orthodoxy. Carter urges black theologians to look back beyond the Enlightenment and the rise of race theory, and to bring patristic Christology into conversation with the modern construction of race and being. He himself draws primarily on the writings of Irenaeus of Lyons, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximos the Confessor in constructing his innovative Christology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 166mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9780195152791
• ISBN-10: 0195152794
• Artikelnr.: 23908887

Autorenporträt

Carter is Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke University. He received a tenure-track position on the basis of this work. He is considered by many to be an up and coming star in his field.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Prelude on Christology and Race: Irenaeus as
Anti-Gnostic Intellectual
* Part I: Dramatizing Race: or, A Theological Account of Modernity
* 1: The Drama of Race: Toward a Theological Account of Modernity
* 2: The Great Drama of Religion: Modernity, the Jews, and the
Theo-Politics of Race
* Part II: Engaging Race; or, The Field of African American Religious
Studies
* 3: Historicizing Race: Raboteau, Religious History, and the
Ambiguities of Blackness
* 4: Theologizing Race: Cone, Liberation, and the Theological Meaning
of Blackness
* 5: Signifying Race: Charles H. Long and the Opacity of Blackness
* Interlude on Christology and Race: Gregory of Nyssa as Abolitionist
Intellectual
* Part III: Redirecting Race: Outlines of Theological Program
* 6: The Birth of Christ: or, A Theological Reading of Briton Hammons
1760 Narrative
* 7: The Death of Christ: or, A Theological Reading of Frederick
Douglasss 1845 Narrative
* 8: The Spirit of Christ: or, A Theological Reading of the Writings of
Jarena Lee
* Postlude on Christology and Race: Maximus the Confessor as
Anti-Colonialist Intellectual
* Epilogue