Gayraud S. Wilmore

Black Theology USA and South Africa

Theology

“Dwight Hopkins carefully maps the terrain between North American and South African Black Theology. This detailed analysis of the cultural and political connections which ignited the explosion of Black theology in both countries is an indispensable guidebook for Black and White coalitions at home or abroad.”

Christianity on Trial

Theology

“A much-needed and enlightening book! Chapman is not afraid to expose weaknesses and oppressive elements in Christianity. In the process, however, he shows how African American religious thinkers, early and late, have been its most prophetic and productive critics in their continuous search for the God who liberates both women and men.”

God’s Yes Was Louder than My No

“The churches need this examination of a distinctive phenomenon of the African American religious experience to which Myers applies impressive cross-disciplinary research skills and insight. A fine contribution to black religious studies!”

Must God Remain Greek?

“Robert Hood's volume should be read precisely because it lies outside the range of Euro-American cognizance. It unbinds God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit from Greco-Roman intellectual hegemony, thereby making the case for a new transcultural theology, deeply penetrated by the profoundly human and pragmatic spirituality of Africa and the Caribbean.”

The Negro Church

History & Biography

“No one can have a respectable knowledge of African American Christianity who has not read Woodson's The History of the Negro Church (1921) and Du Bois's earlier sociological study of the same subject, The Negro Church (1903). Now we have a much anticipated new edition of the latter book by one of the late C. Eric Lincoln's brightest proteges, Alton B. Pollard, the dean of the Divinity School of Howard University. Pollard's explanatory and expansive introduction is alone worth the price of the book, making Du Bois's path-blazing opus live again as an indispensable guide to understanding the scope, depth, and paradoxes of classic Black religion and theology today.”

The Word Made Plain

Preaching & Worship

“Harris has done his homework. He has exceeded other homileticians by not only unpacking the nature of Black preaching, but also in what others have not done as well: He has related this theory of the art to a wide and interdisciplinary gamut of philosophers and scholars to show what the world at large can appreciate and learn from this noble heritage of the African American church.”

To Make the Wounded Whole

History & Biography

“An important work! No interpreter has more comprehensively documented than Baldwin how King's complex thought and personality provide the central fulcrum upon which contemporary African-American theological and ethical thought turns.”