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The End of God-talk

An African American Humanist Theology

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has stunted African American theological discourse and excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists. Rejecting the assumption of theism as the African American orientation, Pinn poses a crucial question: What is a non-theistic theology? The End of God-Talk outlines the first systematic African American non-theistic theology. Pinn offers a new center for theological inquiry, grounded in a more scientific notion of the human than the imago Dei ideas that dominates African American theistic theologies. He proposes a turn to Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Alice Walker in order to effect a sense of ethical conduct consistent with African American non-theistic humanism. The End of God-Talk ends with an exploration of the religious significance of ordinary spaces and activities as settings for humanist theological engagement.
Through a turn to embodied human life as the proper arena and content of theologizing, Pinn opens up a new theological path with important implications for ongoing work in African American religious studies.

The End of God-talk and Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought
Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological ThoughtThe End of God-talk
  • Author

    Anthony B. Pinn

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    January 2012

  • Weight

    314g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195340839

  • ISBN-10

    0195340833

  • Eden Code

    4514465

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