Description
For more than three hundred years, black women have embodied a theology of hope which has enabled them to overcome a history of abuse and violence. While a theology of hope has been widely discussed in twentieth centry theology, it was born in slavery long before Jurgen Moltmann introduced it to America in 1967. Even womanist notions of hope have not explored the theological character of hope in abused black women's narratives. A. Elaine Brown Crawford argues that hope is the theological construct that moves black women beyond endurance and survival to transformation of their personal and communal realities. This book identifies and analyzes the theological vision of hope voiced within the narratives of enslaved, emancipated, and contemporary black women and brings that vision into discussion with contemporary womanist theologies.
Author: A. Elaine Brown Crawford
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 11/30/2002
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.58w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9780664222543
ISBN10: 0664222544
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology | Ethics
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies