This book focuses on Baldwin’s experiences as a gifted black writer who fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual relationships. Baldwin’s God is a ‘mysteriously impersonal’ force he calls love- ‘something . . . like a fire, like the wind, something which can change you.’
Daftar Isi
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Credo 3. Born in a Christian Culture 4. ‘In Search of a Majority’ 5. Scarred by the Rock 6. Opening the Unusual Door 7. Coming out the Wilderness 8. Weighing Your Gods and You 9. Declining to ‘Imitate the Son of the Morning’ 10. That Train’s Long Gone 11. The Black Issue of the Holy Ghost 12. Ain’t Nothing but Us Up the Road 13. A Miracle of Coherence and Release 14. Postscript ?
Tentang Penulis
Josiah U. Young III is Professor of Systematic Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books and articles, all of which explore the connections among Africana Studies, Christian theology and the history and philosophy of religion. He is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia and Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
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