Prophetic FragmentsWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1988 - 294 pages "This collection of writings, drawn from a wide variety of sources, reveals the intellectual depth and breadth of the author. The articles include political commentary, cultural critique, literary analysis, extended book reviews, and even a short story by West. All of these are held together by a prophetic Afro-American Christian perspective. The value of this book is that it provides easy access to a significant selection of the author's corpus." --Religious Studies Review (October 1989) "This volume collects over 50 articles, book reviews, and addresses by a Union Seminary theologian . . . . The most eloquent pieces are those in which West explains and interprets his more personally felt tradition of Afro-American Protestantism." -- Library Journal |
Contents
Prophetic Christian as Organic | 3 |
Religion and the Left | 13 |
Religion Politics Language | 22 |
A Black Socialist Christian Critique | 30 |
The Prophetic Tradition in AfroAmerica | 38 |
Contemporary AfroAmerican Social Thought | 50 |
On Stanley Aronowitzs The Crisis in Historical Materialism | 82 |
On Mark Naisons Communists in Harlem During the Depression | 90 |
Postmodernity and AfroAmerica | 168 |
In Memory of Marvin Gaye | 174 |
On Fox and Learss The Culture of Consumption | 188 |
Christian Theological Mediocrity | 195 |
On Franz Hinkelammerts The Ideological Weapons of Death | 203 |
On Harvey Coxs Religion in the Secular City | 212 |
On Nicholas Lashs A Matter of Hope | 222 |
On Pascals Significance | 234 |
Toward a Socialist Theory of Racism | 97 |
On Visiting South Africa | 109 |
A Christian | 124 |
Left Strategies Today | 137 |
Christian Realism as Religious Insights and Europeanist | 144 |
Sex and Suicide | 155 |
Subversive Joy and Revolutionary Patience in Black | 161 |
On George Stroups The Promise of Narrative Theology | 240 |
Winter in the West | 246 |
Martin Luther as Prophet | 257 |
Dispensing with Metaphysics in Religious Thought | 267 |
The Crisis in Theological Education | 273 |
Sing a Song | 281 |
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References to this book
Christian Apologetics in the Postmodern World Timothy R. Phillips,Dennis L. Okholm Limited preview - 2009 |
Coming Together/coming Apart: Religion, Community, and Modernity Elizabeth M. Bounds No preview available - 1997 |