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Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1975
No full textInterdenominational Theological Center An Ecumenical Professional Graduate School of Theolog
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1976
No full textInterdenominational Theological Center An Ecumenical Professional Graduate School of Theolog
The Minister as a Change Agent
Get PDFMy first task in this discussion is to define and narrow the limits of the subject. It is possible to interpret the clergyman’s role as being a “change agent” in every aspect of his or her endeavors. Proclaiming the Word, for example, is one attempt to produce change: hearing of the Word induces people to live differently in relation to God. Healing the souls of human beings is another such attempt: persons are enabled to move from ill health to good health or even to perfect health. Every action or responsibility of ministry, therefore, could be conceived to involve the minister as a change agent of some sort
“God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, Man Our Brother"’: A Thelogical Interpretation of the A. M. E. Church
Get PDFWhat we think is connected with the conditions of our lives. Many scholars today believe that all knowledge is determined by social conditions and is therefore subject to error. The implication is that no one can claim that his or her thinking is completely objective. What people regard as true and real depends partly or wholly upon how they perceive their social and political interests
White Need for Black Theology
Get PDFEver since its advent, recent “black theology” has puzzled and troubled whites. We have not known what to do with it. It has been so black as apparently to exclude whites, yet on the other hand it appears to some extent to be addressed to us. We can neither copy it and do it as our own, nor contain it as a chapter within our own theology. The waters have been troubled and muddied further by analagous efforts of other minorities and women to do their theologies. In terms of liberation, following in the path of black theologies of liberation have come women’s liberation, gay liberation, Latin American liberation theology, etc.. Ironically, one effect of this proliferation has been an apparent ratification of the authority and dominance of white male theology, insofar as it has put upon the dominant theology the responsibility for clarifying, comprehending and ordering the situation which otherwise remains chaotic and confused. The thesis of this paper is, however, that the prevailing white (male) theology is not so easily off the hook. I contend that black theology is sui generis and singularly significant for white American theology (male and female), that while it cannot be appropriated by whites, neither can it be ignored or co-opted by them.1 The reason for this judgment, to anticipate the argument that follows, is that blacks are uniquely objects of oppression and that among all oppressed groups in North America they present an uniquely Christian self-understanding. Only they speak so radically with both the vision of the oppressed and the responsibility of Christian faith. I propose that in the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers we have a key to understand our situation as white theologians who find ourselves addressed by this unique black experience and the theology which comes out of it.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Liberation Ethics In a Christian Context
Get PDFIncreasingly, there is a persistent concern among community leaders, educators, theologians and ethicists alike of the necessity to reexamine the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. The difficulty in rational reflection upon any one phase of King’s thought lies in the fact that so much has been written about his philosophy and theology and his contribution to the non-violent freedom movement of the last two decades. It is never easy to find one’s way into another side or dimension of a person’s thought. Yet as we attempt to discover more “promising moral indicators” for the future, we are compelled by the sway of events to investigate, critically and appreciatively, the ethical dimension of the thought of King
Annotated List of Dissertations on the Life And Work of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Get PDFAnnotated List of Dissertations on the Life And Work of Martin Luther King, Jr
The Proper Study of Mankind
Get PDFI spent two years of my childhood on a military base in the Philippines. Such communities are, by their very nature, encapsulated within the life of the indigenous population. Yet now and again some shadowy authority decided that we should have some contact with the strangers we sojourned among. I remember for instance that the boys from a nearby parochial school once came to play our school’s basketball team. We stood around the rain-glistening ball court, absorbed not in the game but in these lean, dark aliens calling to one another in unknown tongues. We understood only the laughter, and it made us shy and touchy. A boy would dash past, our eyes would inadvertently catch, and veer quickly away again. Then his brown face would jerk back with insolent defiance, he would toss the heavy black hair off his forehead and race on. I recall that as one of the most frustrating days of my life
Configurational Patterns in the Function of the Church for Aging Persons: A Black Perspective
Get PDFFunctions of the black church for black aged may be considered an important issue in the study of black aging because of the manner in which these functions may impact transition and adjustment of blacks to old age. However, the importance of functions of the black church in the black aging process may be seen only insofar as it is possible to explore systematically the context in which these functions occur. One manner in which black church functions may be explicated is in terms of a socio-historical model adapted from Roth1 which focuses on configurational patterns whose bases are in historical experience and which have a bearing on church functions
Toward an Understanding of Religion and Slavery in J.W.C. Pennington
Get PDFWhile one can isolate several significant themes in the life and work of James W. C. Pennington, this investigation focuses on religion andslavery. These two themes constitute major focal points in the life of this black minister whose public life spanned the period of “militantabolitionism” and much of Reconstruction. To demonstrate the inter-relationship between religion and slavery in his life, we shall discussPennington’s (1) refutation of the religious proslavery argument and (2) his defense of affiliating with a denomination with slaveholders. This essay will show that Pennington based his opposition to slavery on a rational interpretation of Biblical literature and defended his affiliation with the Presbyterian denomination as a right of individual conscience. Since no detailed biographical account of this black religionist has been published, a very brief sketch of his life seems in order