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Preliminary Thoughts on Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Africans Who Shaped Our Faith’
November 19th, 2008
I was contacted a couple of months ago by an online PR agent to review Dr. Jeremiah Wright’s now recently released book, ‘Africans Who Shaped Our Faith’.
After some mishaps, my copy finally arrived this past week; and upon pulling it out of my PO Box, I began to read the Preface right there in the post office.
I was elated by the thesis the book proposes to be address. A sample:
Do you have any relatives or friends who have either left the church or refuse to attend church, saying that Christianity is a “white man’s religion?” Have you ever heard from them the ideal that the Bible was written for, by and about white people? Do they tell you that white Christians were the major participants in the slave trade, and that white people have used Christianity as an “opiate” to keep black people docile and servile?
One does not have to go far to hear such ideals circulated throughout African and African American communities–both on the continent of Africa and throughout the Diaspora…
The ideal that the source of Christianity was European did not originate in the 20th century. Neither has the idea always come from outside of the walls of the church…
Is the Issue Really That Big? Many African American psychologist would answer in the affirmative! Psychologist Amos Wilson Discuss the damage of exposing black children to images of goodness that are always European or Euro-American…
Many of the personalities featured lived thousands of years apart, yet they had in common an undying and powerful faith in God.
All of them lived thousands of years before the first European missionaries reached Africa, and before the first “Christian slave catchers brought Africans to the Americas.
Summary The book can be used in many ways. However, its basic purpose is to cause the reader to make contact with God, while reading about what God meant and did in the lives of ten Africans who have shaped our faith.
This subject is right up my alley as I read a book about 10 years ago entitled The Black Presence In The Bible, and subsequently a few years ago re-read and did a power point presentation on it which I presented at church.
Was planning on reviving that for this coming February [note to self, starting getting on that soon]. I’m quite interest on the sociological impact of the recognition of Black lineage in the Bible.
I touched on the issues raised in the preface above in a post awhile back entitled Why Do Blacks Follow Their Oppressor’s Religion
I’ve still only read the preface so far; but I can’t wait to work through some other already planned task in the next few days so that I might have the opportunity to get into the book.
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