Children of the waters of Meribah
Subtitle: Black liberation theology, the Miriamic tradition, and the challenges of twenty-first-century empire
By: Allan Aubrey Boesak
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: African Sun Media under the SunPress imprint
Published: 2019
Place of publication: [Stellenbosch]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781928314653; 9781928314660
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Black theology; Social justice; Christianity; Feminist criticism; History; Bible
Description: "In the decades since Black liberation theology burst onto the scene, it has turned the world of church, society, and academia upside down. It has changed lives and ways of thinking as well. But now there is a question: What lessons has Black theology not learned as times have changed? In this expansion of the 2017 Yale Divinity School Beecher Lectures, Allan Boesak explores this question. If Black liberation theology had taken the issues discussed in these pages much more seriously--struggled with them much more intensely, thoroughly, and honestly--would it have been in a better position to help oppressed black people in Africa, the United States, and oppressed communities everywhere as they have faced the challenges of the last twenty-five years? In a critical, self-critical engagement with feminist and, especially, African feminist theologians in a trans-disciplinary conversation, Allan Boesak, as Black liberation theologian from the Global South, offers tentative but intriguing responses to the vital questions facing Black liberation theology today, particularly those questions raised by the women." --
Notes: Originally published by Wipf & Stocks.

Includes bibliographical references ((pages 221-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Poisoned well or waters of life?: Black theology, Black preaching, scripture, and the challenges of empire; title: The birthing stool, the burning bush, and the throne of pharaoh: Black theology, the women of Exodus, and the righteousness of resistance; title: Standing her ground: the riverbank and the seashore: Black theology, the Miriamic tradition, and the cry for freedom; title: Drinking from the waters of Meribah: Black theology, liberation, and the integrity of radical engagement; title: Jesus, a woman, and Biko's ghost: Black theology, empire, and the liberation of the colonized mind; title: The secret of the human child: Black theology, the Canaanite woman, and the walls of internalized, imperialist patriarchy; title: A bucket, a well, and the gendered politics of water: Black theology, Jesus, and the sister from Sychar.