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Richard Wright, The Fifties and Savage Holiday
Get PDFThat Richard Wright has attained a permanent niche in the pantheon of American literary history is now incontrovertible. Indeed, an entry on the author as novelist, short-story writer and critic is invariably found in the standard reference volumes, such as The Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, Who’s Who in Twentieth Century Literature, Literary History of the United States, et al. Generally speaking, however, the focal point of interest in such commentaries is the novel Native Son (1940); for it seems (with few exceptions) to be commonly accepted as the major literary and cultural achievement of its creator. Accordingly, the rave assessments of it have ranged all the way from Irving Howe’s cataclysmal conclusion of two decades ago that “the day Native Son appeared, American culture changed forever”1 to the recent subdued but nonetheless dogmatic assertion of Nathan Scott, Jr., that “it was not until the spring of 1940, when Harper and Brothers brought out Richard Wright’s Native Son, that the work of a Negro writer made, by its appearance, a truly salient event.”
Pictorial Preaching In The Bible
Get PDFPictorial preaching is not a twentieth century phenomenom or the ern theological seminary’s production. It antedates the creative workof contemporary teachers of homiletics. The Bible contains convincing and inspiring evidence of pictorial preaching. This article focuses on six biblical preachers who excelled in painting verbal pictures. Three proclaimers - Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel - were preaching giants during the Old Testament dispensation. The pictures of the other three - John the Baptist, Jesus the Christ, and John the Prophet - dominate the period of the New Testament
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1984
No full textJournal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 198
The Ultimate Indiscernibility of Faith
Get PDFMy title seems to advocate subjectivism, that is to deny any criterion of truth outside the subject, to propagate a radical subjectivity familiar to the post-Kantian idealist tradition developed by Hegel. It also appears to repudiate any criterion of evaluation for the superiority of any faith, and to entirely eliminate the question of the relevancy of Christian tradition, in particular its claim of unique truth and of absolute necessity and its history of dogmas and anathema
Creationism and Public Education
Get PDFWhen the creationism vs. evolutionism issue is discussed in relation to public education, it is treated exclusively as a question of the establishment of religion. Yet, there is another side to the case, namely, the question of the right of a religious belief not to be discredited by the government
The Doctor of Ministry Cohort As A Transformative Dialogue Group
Get PDFTransformative Dialogue in a Doctor of Ministry Program can function as a transformative learning experience that fosters Professional Ministry Development for ministers. Transformative dialogic moments shape the identity of learners by means of creating learning spaces to facilitate Professional Ministry Development. The sharing, respect, and commitment to the ideas and needs of the group can serve as a mephato which is a cohort called together to receive training and/or mobilize each other to construct useful knowledge together as a collective. These groups or cohorts provide a unique container for transformative learning within their relationships fostered through self-awareness, group identity, and critical consciousness. Triggered by moments of cognitive dissonance, the Doctor of Ministry group works and dialogues in peer sessions and unique ministry contexts as a means for personal and social transformation. Transformative Learning literature emphasizes the role of relationships with others in such a group as the Petri dish— the growth-supporting environment— that provides both the container and space in which such learning can occur, and the dialogical processes through which learning takes place. In this article, the authors explore the concept of Transformative Dialogue Groups as a development tool for Professional Ministry Training in a Doctor of Ministry cohort or mephato
The Intersectional Significance of Voice and Testimony: Suggestions for a 21st Century Womanist Reclamation of Mary Magdalene
Get PDFIn her groundbreaking work, White Women’s Christ, Black Women’s Jesus, Feminist Christology and Womanist Response, Jacqueline Grant engages both Letty Russel and Rosemary Reuther in their feminist assessments of the liberating qualities and potential of Christology. Grant challenges Reuther's “suggestion that perhaps Mary Magdalene is a more adequate model for women than Mary the virgin mother of Jesus, and that the Christ can be conceived of as sister as well. " While Grant agrees with the emphasis on “women's experience as a primary source for doing theology, " she questions whether Reuther and other feminist scholars, “are able to understand the particularities of non- white women’s experience.' A reading of John 20: 11-18 from an expanded womanist perspective offers a new look at the relevance of gender, class and community in the story, in which Mary Magdalene encounters Jesus, through this exploration, I assert a recent lack of attention to this passage by womanist scholars who are interested in biblical and theological questions and their relevance and impactfor the Black Church, in general and Black women, in particular. Through a prismatic view that considers the relevance ofintersectionality in the text and the reader, a womanist reading can inform and reshape the way that the story is read and interpreted by Black women scholars, which can inform its message to the Black Church and its members. The notions of voice as manifest through witness and testimony to one's experience offer the appropriate womanist window through which this passage can be considered. Ultimately, John positions Mary Magdalene as “voice” of the Johannine community, ordained by Jesus as the first to affirm and reflect his transformative power. A “re-reading” emphasizing her role in community with others and relationship with Jesus can help womanist scholars identify meaning, relevance and power in the most important story about the greatest news in Christianity. This re-reading of Mary Magdalene as the voice in the Johannine community proposes a reclamation of Mary Magdalene and offers a portal for re-inserting the African American voice into the extensive discourse about Biblical relevance, women, identity, power, justice and [the Johannine] community. It also offers a reading of Mary Magdalene that affirms women's voice and power as community leaders and proclaimers of the word
Review: Israel and Empire: A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early Judaism.
No full textPostcolonial biblical criticism, while not a new endeavor, has very few book length treatments outside of the New Testament Text. Leo Purdue’s work takes postcolonialist thought and surveys the history of Judah and Israel as they are conquered by larger nations as recorded in the Hebrew Bible. Purdue is interested in looking closer at the ancient story informed by postmodern historiography. Because there are no ‘pure’ lines of postcolonial literary critique to draw from, Purdue uses the ‘cafeteria style’ approach and chooses several different thinkers and concepts to undergird his work. In this review I will highlight the Introduction/ theoretical framing of Purdue’s writing, then I will review several pieces of the remaining chapters where the author has used his postcolonial lens to re-read the history of the nations of Judah and Israel as they were ruled by larger nations
Review: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance
Get PDFRufas Burrow's most recent book, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Theology of Resistance is an important contribution to the growing field of King scholarship, especially in its comprehensive treatment of King as a theological social ethicist grounded in the tradition of Boston personalism. Burrow argues that to truly appreciate King’s theology of resistance, it is imperative to come to terms with his basic personalist ideas of God, the world, and humanity. Furthermore, he invites his readers to see how King took personalism and expanded it in his own distinctive ways by not merely echoing his personalist predecessors but taking those ideas to task in confronting a trilogy of social problems— racism, economic injustice, and militarism-in his non-violent civil rights movement from Montgomery to Memphis. Burrow, then, extends the conversation further and explores how King’s personalist theology may be strategically positioned to address pressing matters of black- against-black violence and ongoing struggles of African-Americans against racism
Worship That Transforms: A Cross-Cultural Proposal
Get PDFDuring the summer of 1996, the writer attended a conference of Asian Christians in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the only non-Asian observer. This event was sponsored by the Programme for Theology with Asian Resources, a theological forum growing out of the Christian Conference of Asia. Fifty Asians gathered from more than twenty countries to investigate the topic, “Doing Theology with Asian Resources.” As we listened to the diverse stories of those assembled, a recurring theme emerged: Flow can we be Christian and still be Asian? The conundrum of Asian Christian experience reflects both gratitude to Euro-American Christian missionaries for a legacy of the Good News of Jesus Christ and frustration as Christians for feeling like cultural aliens in their own land. Euro-North American influences remain stifling, especially in the areas of liturgical ritual and congregational song