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The Black Church As An Afrocentric Institution
Get PDFThe Black Church in America continues to occupy a place of centrality and influence in African American communities. Proponents and detractors alike agree that it is epochal, spanning the long period of the beginning of North American slavery to the present time. While there is little doubt about its influence in shaping the African American community, honest critics admit that both psychological wellness and dysfunction have co-existed in this one institution. Little has changed since 1933, when Carter Woodson wrote of the Black Church’s valuable contribution to the “Negro race,” its unrealized potential, its divisiveness, its Black-on-Black exploitation, and its control by Whites (Woodson, 1969). The Black Church continues to be an ambivalent institution, uncertain of its relationship or mission to African Americans in the latter 20th century
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1989
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The Encounter Of Islam And Christianity In Africa: Pentecost and the Hijrah
Get PDFScholars of religion in Africa have tended on the whole to regard Islam as more in tune with the values of the peoples of the continent, usually thinking of the subject of polygamy, than Christianity. Many African scholars have advanced this view of the two religions in Africa, and not a few African Christian scholars have joined in proposing this understanding of the two religions
Liberty to the Captives: Devotional Cameos of Liberation
Get PDFThere is a thread that runs through the Bible: it is the study of God’s involvement in the realities of human beings and communities and the whole oikumene. It is a study of God’s intervention — not in the past only but in the present and with a promise for the future. The relationship is a dynamic one which God describes in the manner of self-disclosure. God is the great I AM; not a God of the past but also of the present and future whose self-disclosures are unending
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Front Matter, 2022
No full textJITC is a journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center. It publishes peer- reviewed research articles written primarily, but not exclusively, from an Africentric perspective of the Bible and related disciplines. All contributions are referred to recognized scholars who are specialized in the particular discipline in which the article is written
Metshelo Micro-Lending Schemes: Weaning Women from Patriarchal Milk, 2022
No full textThe motshelo informal micro-lending schemes are gaining momentum. Their “business wave” has hit Botswana, with everyone talking business on social media platforms. The buzz word “add me” in metshelo WhatsApp groups created for the empowerment of one another is dominating the airwaves. How do metshelo provide women with start-up cash for running business projects, thus weaning women from dependence on patriarchal milk? In this paper, I will explore how metshelo schemes, have become women-centered movements for the empowerment of women by other women and how they reconstruct gender. The paper will explore how contemporary metshelo are also being tailored to meet the current needs and lifestyle of today’s women as identifiable in the new trend called “showers.” The paper will investigate how metshelo are becoming women’s networks that wean women from dependence on males. The approach uses desktop research and social network theory
“Mad With Supernatural Joy”: On Representations of Pentecostalism in the Black Religious Imagination, 2017
Get PDFThis article examines three distinctive impressions of Pentecostalism within the black religious imagination: Zora Neale Hurston, who engages Pentecostalism as primal African spirituality within the New World context; James Baldwin, whose representation of Pentecostalism focuses on the religious performativity and theatricality of the tradition; and Ithiel Conrad Clemmons, who argues for Pentecostalism as religious innovation, with much to teach the broader religious community about the importance of religious experience in the doing of theology. Hurston, Baldwin, and Clemmons being deeply ensconced in the complexity of black life and black religious culture, critique as well as affirm the power of the Pentecostal experience for individuals and their larger communities
Black Theological Education: It’s Content, Content and Conduct, 2014
No full textDr. James H. Costen, President o f the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) delivered this, his Inaugural Address as the Fifth President of ITC, at Sister’s Chapel, Spelman College on 20 March 1984. His speech addresses the significance of Black theological education through three interconnected sections: Context, Content and Conduct. First, in terms of Context, Dr. Costen argues that theology or “God Talk” Is not performed in a vacuum, disconnected or isolated from present circumstances. Therefore, Black theological education must take into account the community’s historical experience of oppression and marginalization. Second, Black theological education must see the survival of the Black Church as the content of black theological education.