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Ecumenical Implications of the Dismantling of the Ibo Myth in Achebe’s Arrow of God
Get PDFChinua Achebe’s novel, Arrow of God, can be read as an ecumenical statement about how religious people should treat one another. Because it is mostly concerned with what Christians should not do, it can be said that the statement is made negatively. We do get some glimpse throughout the narrative, however, of “what might have been” had the British colonials and the Christian missionaries behaved differently in Nigeria among the Ibo. In this novel, Achebe tells the story of how those Christians and colonials dismantled the myth of the Ibo and began the work of replacing the Ibo mythic system, the rituals, and the social and political systems dependent on that mythic structure, with Christian and Western counterparts
From Civil Rights to Civic Participation
Get PDFThe U. S. Civil Rights Movement caused sweeping changes in this society’s public policies and morality.Deriving from perspectives about what constitutes a good society, this movement was a social practice seeking to realize a vision of specific moral ends. Generally, the moral ends of the movement were to ensure recognition of all persons, especially African Americans, as members of the human community. Recognition is acknowledging persons by others as an expression of recognizing a common humanity.This often is done through inclusion, especially in opportunities to participate in traditions of social practice which reciprocally reflect this commonality. Beyond the general recognition of all persons’ membership in the human community, moral ends of the Civil Rights Movement specificaly implied recognition of black persons in U.S. society
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Front Matter, 1999
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Race and Personhood
Get PDFThis essay is in honor of the legacy and memory of Thomas Jefferson Pugh, the father ofAfrican-American Pastoral Care and Counseling. This writer, one of his students in 1986-1987, experienced him as a person comfortable with himself as well as with students in my particular classes. Although never speaking directly to him about my own unresolved issues related to racism, I do remember stating, in our group-therapy class, that I earned a briefcase to prove my importance to whites. He simply replied, “Why do you need to do that?” Because of his training and commitment to the worth and dignity of persons rooted deeply in his religious faith and in his dynamic interpersonalist philosophical convictions, he always challenged us to ground our identities in something deeper than racial myths
Methods of Cross-Cultural Pastoral Care: Hospitality and Incarnation
Get PDFIn pastoral care and counseling it is not enough to borrow from the counseling psychologies for methodology. One reason for this is that the context out of which the method develops in the counseling psychologies is different from the context of the church. The techniques should be specific to the context in which pastoral care and counseling is provided
Blacks/Negroes: Participants in the Development of Civilization in the Ancient World and Their Presence in the Bible
Get PDFAs I review my life—which now spans some eighty years—I can readily detect the manner in which my mind has changed with respect to Biblical studies. During this developmental process there were many changes, some incidental and minor, but others of a more serious nature. Among the latter was the initial change from a fundamentalistic, literalistic biblical perspective to a radical critical historical/literary position, and then to one more moderate. However, the momentous change occurred when I discarded a narrow white, Euro-American perspective in exchange for a Black Perspective which was and continues to be more universal. Secondly, and more particularly, were the changes that occurred with reference to the question: were Blacks participants in the development of civilization in the ancient world and do they appear in the Bible
Christian Mission in a Pluralistic World
Get PDFThe role of the Western missionary movement in the subjugation and subsequent liberation of African and Asian people is the subject of considerable debate. Depending upon to whom one listens, the Western missionary movement has either been the midwife ushering African and Asian peoples into modernity, or the handmaid of colonial powers in the economic, military and cultural subjugation of the nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America. There is sufficient evidence to build a strong case for either proposition
A New Agenda for the Nineties Jeremiah 23:25-40
Get PDFWe are but four months from entering the decade of the nineties, possibly one of the most turbulent periods in human history. The years immediately ahead promise a decade of paradoxes and contradictions but also of possibilities. Consider the following realities: Rarely in the past has the church of Jesus Christ faced more challenges, but never has the church had greater opportunities. Although the pool of knowledge is today far greater for the church and society, confusion continues over the use of this vast store of information. Observation would indicate that we are hopelessly materialistic, yet surveys reveal that never before has there been a greater hunger for spiritual food
Biographical Portrait
No full textJames Hutten Costen, the youngest child of the late William James Costen and Mary Lou Brookings Costen, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. William was born in Baltimore, Maryland and later moved to Omaha, the site of the headquarters of Union Pacific Railway. He was a private car pullman porter for the president of the company, Edward Harriman, the father of American diplomat Averell Harriman. Mary Lou was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. In the 1920s, she moved to Omaha Nebraska to assist an uncle who operated a mortuary. Mary and William were introduced to each other by Silas Johnson, a funeral director and friend of William. They were married and Mary conceived eight children. Three boys survived: William Theodore, Charles Alexander (now deceased), and James Hutten. William Theodore, the oldest, still resides in Omaha
A New Perspective on Amos 9:7a “To Me, O Israel, you are just like the Kushites.”
Get PDFAs I read and reflected on the traditional interpretations of Amos 9:7a, I felt that much of the information contained in modern books and articles were based upon conjecture, subjective and unsubstantiated suppositions. The sparse comments offered on this text usually lacked any annotation, thereby making it extremely difficult to ascertain the sources of their information. Being troubled by these ambiguities was the catalyst for this exegetical study of the text of Amos 9:7a