Sing a new song : liberating Black hymnody /
Jon Michael Spencer's bold book steps into the intersection of African American life and Christian traditions. He tracks ways in which distortions within the biblical and theological traditions - notably their biases and myths about gender, race, and class - have infected even black Christianit...
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
c1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Petition. 1. The Requisite of Revision. 2. The Prerequisite of Exegetical Freedom
- Pt. 2. Exegeses. 3. Gender and Hymnody. The Fall Interpreted in Ancient and Modern Times. Genesis 3:1-6. The Primeval Story of Genesis. A Verse-by-Verse Study of the Temptation and Transgression. The Problem of the Punishment of Woman. The Question of the So-called Fall Reconsidered. Patriarchy's Fall. 4. Race and Hymnody. The Curse Interpreted in Modern Times. Genesis 9:18-27. Genesis: The Book of Beginnings. The Flood as a Parallel Creation Story. A Verse-by-Verse Study of the Story. The Theological Meaning of the Curse. 5. Class and Hymnody. Toward a Theodicy Reconciling Slavery and Christianity. Christ and "Communitas" Philemon 8-21. The Structure of Philemon. A Verse-by-Verse Reading of Paul's Proof and Peroration. The Question of Slavery. The Antislavery Argument. The Dialectic of Structure and Antistructure. The Insufficiency of Ideological Communitas
- Pt. 3. Revision.
- 6. Anatomy of a New Hymnal
- Appendix of Original Hymns. Our God Who Reigns Lord before Us. Gird Our Loins and Guide Our Lives. Peace, Be Still. O Freedom! Jesus Is Born! O What a Great Day!