The courage to hope : from black suffering to human redemption : essays in honor of James Melvin Washington / edited by Quinton Hosford Dixie and Cornel West ; foreword by Vincent Harding.
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, Mass. :
Beacon Press,
[1999], ©1999.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 267 pages ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : The intellectual legacy of James Melvin Washington
- History. "God's all in this place" : God and historical writing in the postmodern era / David D. Daniels III
- Passage and prayer : the origin of religionin the Atlantic world / Charles H. Long
- "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of faith" : suffering in the Christianity of American slaves
- Providence and the black Christian consensus : a historical essay on the African American religious experience / Sandy Dwayne Martin
- Evil & salvation. Waymaking and dimensions of responsibility : an African American perspective on salvation / Genna Rae McNeil
- "Calling the oppressors to account" : justice, love, and hope in black religion / James H. Cone
- Difference as evil / Judith Weisenfeld
- The politics of conversion and the civilization of Friday / Walter E. Fluker
- Preaching & scripture. Linking texts with contexts : the biblical sermon as social commentary / Carolyn Ann Knight
- What can we say to these things? : James Melvin Washington and preaching in the African American church tradition / Mark V.C. Taylor
- Preaching by punctuation : moving from texts and ideas to sermons that live with passion / Gary V. Simpson
- Have you not read what David did? : a sermon for Jim Washingon / Richard Newman
- Church & community. Strangers and the homecoming : church and community in the grammar of faith / Dale T. Irvin
- Seeming silence and African American culture : interruption as a metaphor of transformation in the religious historiography of James Melvin Washington
- "Some folks get happy and some folks don't" : diversity, community, and African American Christian spirituality
- Letter to James : a conversation on archaeology and soul / Lee Hancock
- Benediction / Cornel West.