9780814793961-0814793967-Pragmatic Spirituality: The Christian Faith through an Africentric Lens

Pragmatic Spirituality: The Christian Faith through an Africentric Lens

ISBN-13: 9780814793961
ISBN-10: 0814793967
Author: Gayraud S. Wilmore
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Paperback 323 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780814793961
ISBN-10: 0814793967
Author: Gayraud S. Wilmore
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Paperback 323 pages

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Pragmatic Spirituality: The Christian Faith through an Africentric Lens (ISBN-13: 9780814793961 and ISBN-10: 0814793967), written by authors Gayraud S. Wilmore, was published by NYU Press in 2004. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles (Sociology, Religious Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Pragmatic Spirituality: The Christian Faith through an Africentric Lens (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Gayraud S. Wilmore, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of the African American church, is one of the founders of black theology and author of Black Religion and Black Radicalism. Pragmatic Spirituality brings together some of his most compelling writings to speak to continuing issues in African American Christianity and black theology. The volume makes available for the first time several of Wilmore's previously unpublished essays, including a new chapter on womanist theology written for this book. Each chapter has been thoroughly reviewed and where appropriate reworked for this volume in order to create a coherent work which reveals a consistent "pragmatic spirituality" in African and African American religious practice. This book presents a view of the Christian faith and life at variance with the quest for personal sanctity by emphasizing communal empowerment for humanization and justice.
Pragmatic Spirituality incorporates some of the most engaging of Wilmore's voluminous writings to reinstate a persistent theme: that black or Africentric faith transposes itself from basically numinous and ecstatic elements in African and African diasporic religions to the immediate and practical work of healing and empowering the poor and marginalized. This book transcends a narrow Africentrism to call for a broad acquaintance with a historic motif in black faith that has to do with compassion, justice, equality, and the liberation of all people.
This illuminating volume displays Wilmore's influence on the development of black theology for over fifty years, and introduces his work to a new generation of scholars.

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