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The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future

The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future Book Reviews Harold A. Carter, Wyatt Tee Walker, and William A. Jones, Jr. The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Martin Luther King Fellows Press, I 99 r. 103 pp. Recent debates concerning the reclamation of a " public theology" in the postmodern era are rendered suspect by their failure to take the black church into consideration. Such a myopic view is all the more troubling considering that the most visible and articulate pub ­ lic theologian of this century was Martin Luther King, Jr., a son of the black church. King's role as a public theologian influenced the careers of a generation of African American clergy committed to Christian social praxis, a combination of critical reflection on social realities and ongoing activism for social change, both framed by the mandates of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Three of these clergy; Harold A. Carter, Wyatt Tee Walker, and William A. Jones, Jr., have collabo­ rated for a second time (The Black Church Looks at th e Bicentennial was their first effort in 1976) to produce a text of "public theology" that uses the role of the black church in the United States as the point of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Black Sacred Music Duke University Press

The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future

Trulear, Harold Dean
Black Sacred Music , Volume 7 (1) – Mar 1, 1993
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Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press
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Book Reviews Harold A. Carter, Wyatt Tee Walker, and William A. Jones, Jr. The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Martin Luther King Fellows Press, I 99 r. 103 pp. Recent debates concerning the reclamation of a " public theology" in the postmodern era are rendered suspect by their failure to take the black church into consideration. Such a myopic view is all the more troubling considering that the most visible and articulate pub ­ lic theologian of this century was Martin Luther King, Jr., a son of the black church. King's role as a public theologian influenced the careers of a generation of African American clergy committed to Christian social praxis, a combination of critical reflection on social realities and ongoing activism for social change, both framed by the mandates of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Three of these clergy; Harold A. Carter, Wyatt Tee Walker, and William A. Jones, Jr., have collabo­ rated for a second time (The Black Church Looks at th e Bicentennial was their first effort in 1976) to produce a text of "public theology" that uses the role of the black church in the United States as the point of

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