Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation [electronic resource] : Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon /
Turman, Eboni Marshall.author.
The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's oppression persists in black churches that espouse theological and ethical commitment to justice? Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation engages the Chalcedonian definition of faith as the starting point for exploring the body as a moral dilemma. Marshall Turman asserts that the body of Christ has historically posed a problem for the church, and has produced a Christian trajectory of violence that has resulted in the breaking of the body of Christ. A survey of the black body as an American problem provides the lens for understanding how the theological problem of body has functioned as a social dilemma for black people. An exploration of the black Social Gospel as the primary theological trajectory that has approached the problem of embodied difference reveals how body injustice, namely sexism, functions behind the veil of race in black churches. (Publisher).
Description based upon print version of record.
The politics of incarnation : a theological perspective -- Moving the body : the logic of incarnation in theoethical perspective -- The problem of incarnation : theorizing the veil -- Bodies and souls : the moral problem of "making men" -- Beyond the veil : toward a womanist ethic of incarnation -- On the parousia : the Black body electric.
The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's oppression persists in black churches that espouse theological and ethical commitment to justice? Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation engages the Chalcedonian definition of faith as the starting point for exploring the body as a moral dilemma. Marshall Turman asserts that the body of Christ has historically posed a problem for the church, and has produced a Christian trajectory of violence that has resulted in the breaking of the body of Christ. A survey of the black body as an American problem provides the lens for understanding how the theological problem of body has functioned as a social dilemma for black people. An exploration of the black Social Gospel as the primary theological trajectory that has approached the problem of embodied difference reveals how body injustice, namely sexism, functions behind the veil of race in black churches. (Publisher).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
Council of Chalcedon (451 : Chalcedon)
Womanist theology
Black theology
Feminist theology
Incarnation
Sociology of Religion.
Biblical Studies.
Religious Studies, general.
Christian Theology.
Christianity.