THEO 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: P21, Alice Walker, Leila Ahmed
19 Aug 2018
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First letter- still a member of nation of islam: played an active public role in the nation. Islam has removed the white from their minds: white people might not always be the problem, big shift in ideas, modern racism: whitewashing race. Lower survival rates of black people with cancer: black women are more likely to have birth complications due to segregation, black theology: james cone. Slave owners tried to impose a vision of christian theology that justified their enslavement: talked about how slaves and black people pushed back against this narrative. Folk tale of high john the conqueror who was a christ figure, but not overtly religious, comes over from africa to liberate black people. Spontaneous sounds and movement: was thought to established limits to christianity by slave masters but black people broke out, subject: jesus christ. Scripture places limits of what can be said about jesus.
