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The Bible and African-American Music
Get PDFThe Bible has played an important role in each period of African-American development. A casual survey of this history reveals overwhelming evidence of the use and influence of the Bible in the songs of the African Diaspora on the NorthAmerican continent. It has been a primary source for spirituals, hymns, and gospel songs composed by African Americans. Even the spiritual’s secular progeny—blues, soul, and jazz—sometimes make reference to the Bible’s concepts and context due largely to its being a common language for a displaced people unable to trace their native tongue to their own county. Africa, a vast continent of many spoken languages, is an example of a disinherited people who were forcibly taken to the New World with no national language except the Bible
Re-establishing Missing Links
Get PDFThe title of this paper may be a misnomer with two assumptions: for missing links to be re-established, they must first exist and then cease to exist. Regarding the first supposition, much debate has occurred concerning the existence of links between an African past and the experience of Africans on American soil. This writer assumes that regardless of the degree to which descendants of Africans in America exemplify their cultural heritage, a transcultural connection inextricably binds the common purpose of Africans of the Diaspora and Africans remaining on the continent, striving toward the fullness of potential
Conclusion: The Overarching Dimension
Get PDFTom Pugh's legacy is his development of the personhood model as the center of emphasis for African-American pastoral care and counseling paradigm. This model emphasizes ‘‘being” rather than “doing” on the part of the care giver. The caring process is multi-dimensional, i.e., the care giver not only gives but receives. Reciprocity is the essence of the caring relationship. Therefore, Tom’s admonition for the care giver is to come to grips with past experiences and feelings in conjunction with the caring encounter
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1995
No full textJournal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 199
‘Like... a House upon the Sand’: African American Biblical Hermeneutics in Perspective
Get PDFThe summum bonum of Jesus’ teaching as reported by Matthew is strict obedience to a new ethic embodied in what is commonly referred to as “The Sermon on the Mount” (Mt. 5-7). We are familiar with the setting. Jesus is teaching a large crowd along with his disciples and in concluding his discourse he uses a building metaphor to depict two classes of disciples (hearers), as they respond to his teaching. Those who, on the one hand, become exemplars of what he exhorts them to do, he likens to wise builders whose houses have a rocky foundation to withstand storms (Mt.7:24f.). Those who, on the other, fail to make hearing issue forth into fundamental change for a more ethical society, Jesus compares to foolish builders who erect their houses on poor foundation, that of sand (Mt. 7:26). I find this similitude quite an appropriate backdrop against which we might address the present state of black biblical Hermeneutics in general and its application by African Americans in particular. Appropriate, because biblical Hermeneutics has to proceed with certain fundamental presuppositions that we might call the foundation of the biblical hermeneutics “house,” and the methods employed in the construction of that foundation we call the tools
Black Men Addressing Crime and Violence: The Maat Plan
Get PDFThe Cultural Studies Group at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, Pennsylvania, recently conducted a scientific, yet passionate, workshop on the historical and contemporary factors that promote and perpetuate Black on Black crime and violence. Drawing on the results of our research and upon our experiences as Black men and prisoners, we present this decisive and comprehensive outline of a strategy aimed at addressing and solving this tragic problem of the African American community today. We call this strategy “The Maat Plan.
Reverence for Life in Severe and Terminal Illness: A Theological Ethical Viewpoint
Get PDFSince the turn of the 20th Century our society has experienced important advances in medical science. During the first half of the century, the development of antibiotics and increasingly sophisticated medical treatment programs have combatted illnessessuch as small pox, tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera, polio, hepatitis and plague which were once regarded as terminal illnesses Yet, more striking advances have emerged gradually over the last half of this century in the form of a highly technocratic practice of medicine
Exploring The Origins Of Masculine Bias Against Women
Get PDFHow and why did a bias against women originate and become so entrenched in Western culture? Archaeological evidence chronicles the high status of women in Mesopotamia several thousands years prior to the advent of Greece. In this paper I link this evidence with Greece, the earliest Western state, and its attitudes towards women. Greek mythology contains prehistoric content and these myths are scanned for masculine bias and the subterranean issue which shape their content. The mythological and prehistoric foundations are examined along with the major factors triggering their emergence and significance to the development of states and the associated subordination of women
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1992
No full textJournal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 199
Jn 6:1-15 and its Synoptic Parallels: An African Approach Toward the Solution of a Johannine Critical Problem
Get PDFThe literary relationship between John and the Synoptics has continued, in recent years, to evoke passionate and critical discussiond The question being addressed, inter alia, is how the Gospel of John, written much later as is currently maintained in Johannine scholarship, shares a number of traditions in common with the Synoptics. A close examination of parallel texts has led modern scholars to abandon some of the earliest theories that sought to explain the relationship between John and the Synoptics, such as those of the Supplementary Hypothesis, which proposed that the Fourth evangelist wrote his Gospel to supplement the Synoptics