Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - 264 pages "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... Jesus. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” For the most part, African Americans do not share the clarity of Paul's biblical vision, and ...
... Jesus. They only want Jesus, just fifteen minutes of Jesus on the rug-bare floor ... You [white people] got the world, can we have our Jesus?” (279). The narrator states, “All we have is the Bible and this [white] Law [standing] here ...
... Jesus Christ the man who suffered before returning to the spirit, must pass through to attain freedom and salvation. Black ritual is an earthly spiritual response to God that frees and saves. Interestingly, Juneteenth seems to make a ...
... Jesus Christ and Christ being the (en)Light(enment) of the world in John 1–14. Black people do not become saints but only sinners who retain great human potential as long as they stay in touch with the creative ritual of the Word and ...
... Jesus Christ Church (13)— that dupes black people in a white world that has oppressed and impoverished them, but the detailed description of Tiny and his movements also celebrates him. Tiny is at first inert and then off-time; then he ...
Contents
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03 Critiquing Christian Belief | 77 |
04 Rejecting God and Redefining Faith | 118 |
05 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith | 156 |
Fiction Life and Faitful Vision | 197 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 245 |
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... James W. Coleman No preview available - 2009 |