Title: Prophesy deliverance! : an Afro-American revolutionary Christianity /
Authors: West, Cornel
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: African Americans Religion; Racism United States; Communism and Christianity United States.
Abstract: "In his first book, now a classic manifesto, Cornel West revitalizes a black theology of liberation by adopting the social analysis of progressive Marxist thought. Through retelling the story of the Western philosophical tradition as well as providing a critical overview of black thought, West provides a theoretical framework for interpreting the African American experience. His goal for integrating the tradition of prophetic Christian thought with Marxist social criticism is the transformation of the structures of the world through political action."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction : The sources and tasks of Afro-American critical thought -- American Africans in conflict : alienation in an insecure culture -- A genealogy of modern racism -- The four traditions of response -- Prophetic Afro-American Christian thought and progressive Marxism -- Afro-American revolutionary Christianity.