Keith Magee, Th.D. #BlackChurchSyllabus

Righteous Discontent by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone Between Sundays by Marla Fredericks Politics of Jesus by Obrey Hendricks Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr. Where Have All the Prophets Gone? By Marvin McMickle My Moral Odyssey by Samuel DeWitt Proctor A Fire in the Bones […]

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Hendricks, Obery ……..The Politics of Jesus Harding, Vincent………..There is a River Thurman, Howard………Jesus and the Disinherited King, Martin Luther……..Why We Can’t Wait King, Martin Luther …….Where Do We Go From Here? Cone, James …………….The Cross and the Lynching Tree Cone, James……………..Black Theology Felder, Cain Hope ……..Troubling Biblical Waters Bonhoeffer, Dietrich …..A Testimony of Freedom Bonhoeffer, […]

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Do No Harm: Social Sin and Christian Responsibility By  Stephen G. Ray            Jesus and the Disinherited  By  Howard Thurman Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920 By Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Souls of Black Folk By  W.E.B. DuBois Where the Edge Gathers: Building a Community of Radical Inclusion By Yvette Flunder […]

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Our Sufficiency Is Of God: Essays on Preaching in Honor of Gardner C. Taylor edited by Timothy George, James Earl Massey and Robert Smith Where Have All The Prophets Gone? by Marvin A. McMickle An Encyclopedia of African American Christian Heritage, Marvin A. McMickle True To Our Native Land edited by Brian Blount et al […]

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Where Have All The Prophets Gone by Marvin McMickle Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus by Reggie Williams Racing to Justice by john a. powell Stand Your Ground by Kelly Douglas Brown I Found God in Me by Mitzi Smith Black Church Studies by Stacy Floyd-Thomas and others The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone God […]

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Passed On: African American Mourning Stories by Karla FC Holloway Stories From Inner Space: Confessions of a Preacher Woman and Other Tales by Claudette Anderson Copeland If It Wasn’t For the Women by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes The Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander Women Who Run With the […]

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Barbara A. Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church Hugh Page, gen. ed., The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora Brian Blunt, et al, True to our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary Renita Weems, Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets Wil […]

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Black Christian Nationalism: New Directions for the Black Church by Albert B. Cleage Jr. Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora Editor(s): Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff, Klaus Hock Democracy in Twenty-First Century America: Race, Class, Religion, and Region by Ronald B. Neal Indigenous Black Theology: Toward an African-Centered Theology of the African-American Religious Experience by […]

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 Black Fire: 100 Years of African American Pentecostalism.  Estrelda Alexander The Prophetic Imagination.  Walter Brueggeman. Katie’s Canon:  Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community.  Katie Geneva Cannon. Jesus Christ: African in Origin, Revolutionary & Redeeming in Action, in My Beloved Community:  Sermons, Speeches and Lectures.  Herbert Daughtry, Sr. The Politics of Jesus.  Obery Hendricks. […]

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Jacquelyn Grant, White Women’s Christ and Black Women’s Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response. James H. Evans, Jr., We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race and Being Demetrius K. Williams, An End to This Strife: The Politics of Gender in African American Churches. Marvin A. McMickle, Where […]

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