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Chargement... Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistancepar Reggie L. Williams
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer publicly confronted Nazism and anti-Semitic racism in Hitler's Germany. The Reich's political ideology, when mixed with theology of the German Christian movement, turned Jesus into a divine representation of the ideal, racially pure Aryan and allowed race-hate to become part of Germany's religious life. Bonhoeffer provided a Christian response to Nazi atrocities. In this book author Reggie L. Williams follows Bonhoeffer as he defies Germany with Harlem's black Jesus. The Christology Bonhoeffer learned in Harlem's churches featured a black Christ who suffered with African Americans in their struggle against systemic injustice and racial violence-and then resisted. In the pews of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, under the leadership of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., Bonhoeffer absorbed the Christianity of the Harlem Renaissance. This Christianity included a Jesus who stands with the oppressed rather than joins the oppressors and a theology that challenges the way God can be used to underwrite a union of race and religion. Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus argues that the black American narrative led Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the truth that obedience to Jesus requires concrete historical action. This ethic of resistance not only indicted the church of the German Volk, but also continues to shape the nature of Christian discipleship today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Dr. Williams shows the transformation of Bonhoeffer's world view and his theology from an unethical marriage of nationalism, privilege and church to one that exists among the marginalized and powerlessness. Williams' study gives not only a lesson in theology but in history detailing how closely linked the structure of white supremacy in the States and German nationalism were, and the role churches played on both sides of the divide, a reality often found more in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance than inside the majority of American churches.
This book should (aside from providing insight into a great minister's growth), with its parallels to the rise of Christian nationalism today, be a warning to those too comfortable in thinking faith only deals with the next kingdom, or in conveniently overlooking injustice.
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