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Title

Sing a new song : liberating Black hymnody / Jon Michael Spencer.

Author

Spencer, Jon Michael.

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1995.

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Description

viii, 231 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Jon Michael Spencer's book steps into the intersection of African American life and Christian traditions. He tracks ways in which distortions within the biblical and theological traditions - notably their biases and myths about gender, race, and class - have infected even black Christianity. His learned and eloquent plea for a more critical Christianity has important implications for all churches.

Subjects

• African American public worship
• African American churches > Hymns > History and criticism
• Hymns, English > United States > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Petition. 1. The Requisite of Revision. 2. The Prerequisite of Exegetical Freedom -- Pt. 2. Exegeses. 3. Gender and Hymnody. The Fall Interpreted in Ancient and Modern Times. Genesis 3:1-6. The Primeval Story of Genesis. A Verse-By-Verse Study of the Temptation and Trangression. The Problem of the Punishment of Woman. The Question of the So-Called Fall Reconsidered. Patriarchy's Fall. 4. Race and Hymnody. The Curse Interpreted in Modern Times. Genesis 9:18-27. Genesis: The Book of Beginnings. The Flood as a Parallel Creation Story. A Verse-By-Verse Study of the Story. The Theological Meaning of the Curse. 5. Class and Hymnody. Toward a Theodicy Reconciling Slavery and Christianity. Christ and "Communitas" Philemon 8-21. The Structure of Philemon. A Verse-By-Verse Reading of Paul's Proof and Peroration. The Question of Slavery. The Antislavery Argument. The Dialectic of Structure and Antistructure. The Insufficiency of Ideological Communitas -- Pt. 3. Revision. 6. Anatomy of a New Hymnal.
• Appendix of Original Hymns.

ISBN

0800627229 :

LCCN

94034515

OCLC

• 31045506
• ocm31045506

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries