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Title

Dogged strength within the veil : Africana spirituality and the mysterious love of God / Josiah Ulysses Young III.

Author

Young, Josiah U. (Josiah Ulysses)

Publication

Harrisburg, PA : Trinity Press International, c2003.

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Description

ix, 133 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on the work of great African American writers and others, Young seeks insights from the African American experience to break through the oppressiveness of a Christianity corrupted by white notions of power, and he suggests a return to the Gospel." "Young draws upon personal experience from two study trips to Africa and the writings of Africans to uncover parallels in that continent's spiritual traditions to a Christianity based on "the mysterious love of God." In particular, he sees true interpretations of the Gospel in works of African Christians such as Engelbert Mveng, a Jesuit who was murdered in his native Cameroon for advocating human rights, but whose writings "invested Christian symbols with their original energy.""

Series Statement

African American religious thought and life

Uniform Title

African American religious thought and life

Subject

• African Americans > Religion
• Spiritual life > Christianity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-128) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one. Introduction -- Ever at thy glowing altar : the problem -- Burning through the plastic image : the approach -- Part two. Dogged strength within the veil : double-consciousness and the shrouding activity of the white man's religion -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen : Du Bois's inner strength -- American Africanism : Toni Morrison's insight into the form of God -- God is nobody's toy : James Baldwin's rejection of a nullifying double standard -- Part three. Africana spirituality : progenies of the middle passage and their implications for today -- Questions louder than drums : this discomfort -- From Ryangombe the blood pact to the bloody Panga -- Part four. The mysterious love of God : burning through the veil -- Une surprenante analogie : reinvesting Christian symbols with their original energy -- The mysterious love of a third-party God.

ISBN

1563383462 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003004348

OCLC

51769021

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library