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Africentric approaches to Christian ministry : strengthening urban congregations in African American communities. / edited by Ronald Edward Peters, Marsha Snulligan Haney.

Contributor(s): Haney, Marsha Snulligan | Peters, Ronald Edward
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2006Description: xxii, 178 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0761832645; 9780761832645 (pbk.)Other title: Afrocentric approaches to Christian ministrySubject(s): Afrocentrism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Church work with African Americans | African American churchesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From rhetoric to the reality of Africentric Christian ministry / Ronald Edward Peters -- Does the "Black church" really exist? / Gayraud S. Wilmore -- What has happened to us? Conversing with scholar Mercy Oduyoye on the quest for life / Marsha Snulligan Haney, Tumani Mutasa Nyajeka, Rosetta E. Ross -- Africentrism as a challenge to contemporary Christian ministry / Ronald Edward Peters -- Africentric Christianity and urban ministry / J. Deotis Roberts -- Make it plain, preacher: Africentrism and constructing African-American sermonic discourse / Richard C. Chapple, Jr. -- Church's ministry to the urban family: creative responses to a continuing New Testament challenge / Cain Hope Felder -- Christians celebrating Kwanzaa: reflections and thanksgiving for the African heritage / Ronald Edward Peters -- Building an Africentric bridge from inside stained-glass windows to the community outside / Johnnie Monroe -- Africentric Christian education: a historical perspective / Fred Douglas Smith, Jr. -- Building community in a multicultural context: the role of an Africentric consciousness / Gloria J. Tate -- Challenges of Africentric ministry for urban theological education / Warren L. Dennis -- Diaspora ethics: "the hinges upon which the future swings" / Katie Geneva Cannon -- Africentricity: a missiological pathway toward Christian transformation / Marsha Snulligan Haney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: From rhetoric to the reality of Africentric Christian ministry / Ronald Edward Peters -- Does the "Black church" really exist? / Gayraud S. Wilmore -- What has happened to us? Conversing with scholar Mercy Oduyoye on the quest for life / Marsha Snulligan Haney, Tumani Mutasa Nyajeka, Rosetta E. Ross -- Africentrism as a challenge to contemporary Christian ministry / Ronald Edward Peters -- Africentric Christianity and urban ministry / J. Deotis Roberts -- Make it plain, preacher: Africentrism and constructing African-American sermonic discourse / Richard C. Chapple, Jr. -- Church's ministry to the urban family: creative responses to a continuing New Testament challenge / Cain Hope Felder -- Christians celebrating Kwanzaa: reflections and thanksgiving for the African heritage / Ronald Edward Peters -- Building an Africentric bridge from inside stained-glass windows to the community outside / Johnnie Monroe -- Africentric Christian education: a historical perspective / Fred Douglas Smith, Jr. -- Building community in a multicultural context: the role of an Africentric consciousness / Gloria J. Tate -- Challenges of Africentric ministry for urban theological education / Warren L. Dennis -- Diaspora ethics: "the hinges upon which the future swings" / Katie Geneva Cannon -- Africentricity: a missiological pathway toward Christian transformation / Marsha Snulligan Haney.

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