Africentric Approaches to Christian Ministry

In a pluralistic world where the tendency is to dismiss or silence ethnic and racial differences, Africentric Approaches to Christian Ministry Strengthening Urban Congregations in African American Communities offers invaluable insight into the ordering of urban congregational life, Christian ministry, and urban missiology from a worldview perspective that values the centrality of African people.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction: From Rhetoric to the Reality of Africentric Christian Ministry

xv

Ronald Edward Peters

Does the ``Black Church'' Really Exist?

1

(12)

Gayraud S. Wilmore

What Has Happened to Us? Conversing with Scholar Mercy Oduyoye on the Quest for Life

13

(22)

Marsha Snulligan Haney

Tumani Mutasa Nyajeka

Rosetta E. Ross

Africentrism as a Challenge to Contemporary Christian Ministry

35

(16)

Ronald Edward Peters

Africentric Christianity and Urban Ministry

51

(12)

J. Deotis Roberts

Make It Plain, Preacher: Africentrism and Constructing African-American Sermonic Discourse

63

(12)

Richard C. Chapple, Jr.

The Church's Ministry to the Urban Family: Creative Responses to a Continuing New Testament Challenge

75

(8)

Cain Hope Felder

Christians Celebrating Kwanzaa: Reflections and Thanksgiving for the African Heritage

83

(14)

Ronald Edward Peters

Building an Africentric Bridge from Inside Stained-Glass Windows to the Community Outside

97

(12)

Johnnie Monroe

Africentric Christian Education: A Historical Perspective

109

(10)

Fred Douglas Smith, Jr.

Building Community in a Multicultural Context: The Role of an Africentric Consciousness

119

(12)

Gloria J. Tate

The Challenges of Africentric Ministry for Urban Theological Education

131

(10)

Warren L. Dennis

Diaspora Ethics: ``The Hinges Upon Which the Future Swings''

141

(10)

Katie Geneva Cannon

Africentricity: A Missiological Pathway toward Christian Transformation

151

(16)

Marsha Snulligan Haney

Selected Bibliography

167

(8)

About the Contributors

175

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Africentric Approaches to Christian Ministry Strengthening Urban Congregations in African American Communities

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