We have been believers : An African American systematic theology / James H. Evans Jr., edited and introduced by Stephen G. Ray Jr. [print]

Revelation and liberation ; The meaning of revelation ; The meaning of liberation ; Two aspects of African American religion ; Narrative and African American theological discourse ; Narrative and method in African American theology ; The Bible: a text for outsiders ; the Bible and slavery ; The Bible and liberation ; Dismembering the text: remembering the story ; Biblical foundations for black theology ; The ungiven God ; The problem of God in African American experience ; the idea of God ; The concept of God ; God, freedom, and impartiality ; God, love, and partisanship ; God, personhood, and creativity ; Jesus Christ: liberator and mediator ; The "figura" of Christ in African American experience ; Jesus and the disinherited ; The development of christology in black theology ; Conclusion ; On being black ; the problem of humanity in African American experience ; Racism and the Christian understanding of humanity - the doctrine of humanity in black theology ; Three dimensions of human existence ; The community of faith and the spirit of freedom ; The problem of community in African American religious experience ; The church in black theology ; Toward an African American ecclesiology ; The last shall be first ; History and hope in African American religious experience ; The church in black theology ; History, hope, and freedom ; We have been believers: three twentierth-anniversary responses ; A womanist conjure on we have been believers ; The meaning of we have been believers for the black church ; A black evangelical response to we have been believers.

Seeking to overcome the chasm between church practice and theological reflection, James H. Evans Jr., a major and distinctive voice in American religion, situates theology squarely in the nexus of faith with freedom. There, with a sure touch, he uplifts revelatory aspects of black religious experience that reanimate classical areas of theology, and he creates a theology with a heart, soul, and voice that speak directly to our condition. Edited and introduced by Stephen G. Ray Jr., the second edition, published on the twentieth anniversary of the first, includes three new essays that identify the value of the book for womanist, evangelical, and black church audiences. The new edition concludes with an Afterword by the author himself. Link to source of summary

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James H. Evans Jr. is Robert K. Davies Professor of Systematic Theology at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. He is the author of We Shall All Be Changed (1997), Modern Christian Thought: The Twentieth Century (2nd edition, 2006), and Playing: Christian Explorations of Daily Living (2010), all with Fortress Press. Stephen G. Ray Jr. is Neal F. and Ila A. Fisher Professor of Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. His books include Do No Harm: Social Sin and Christian Responsibility (Fortress Press, 2002) and Black Church Studies: An Introduction (2007).