The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption

Book Overview

In this unique collaboration, the most prized and esteemed scholars in theology, religious history, and sociology offer a new understanding of American spiritual life by placing African-American religious experience at its center. Moving from specific cases in African-American history and theology to discussions of how African-American experiences can and should inform all studies of American life, they uncover the spiritual human soul that unites all of us. The editors call this project a "testament of hope," and it is a powerful tribute to the late James M. Washington, whose works were an inspirational search for universality.

Contributors include James H. Cone, David D. Daniels III, Walter E. Fluker, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, E. Lee Hancock, Dale T. Irvin, Carolyn Ann Knight, Charles H. Long, Sandy Dwayne Martin, Genna Rae McNeil, Richard Newman, Albert J. Raboteau, Gary V. Simpson, Mark V.C. Taylor, Judith Weisenfeld, and Lucas Wilson.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807009539
• ISBN13: 9780807009536
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Superb readings in black history and theology.

Some of the best scholars of theology and sociology blend forces to provide a new focus on Afro-American religious experience, presenting specific cases in black history and theology to reveal underlying roots of black suffering. It's difficult to easily categorize Courage to Hope: it offers appeal not just to students of religion, but to those examining black history.