Deliver Us from Evil

by James Newton Poling

Book Overview

Deliver Us From Evil explores the history of resistance to racial and gender oppression-from a slave woman in nineteenth-century America to a woman patient of Sigmund Freud-and traces the failed promises of the American Revolution in the oppression of subordinate groups. Poling reviews resistance by analyzing communities that understand evil as the abuse of power. Also treated are definitions of evil and debates between womanist and feminist theologians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800629043
• ISBN13: 9780800629045
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.6" x 9.0"