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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... Prophecy of Different Ways of Seeing Salvation chapter 4 · 118 Rejecting God and Redefining Faith Portrayals of Black Women's Spirituality chapter 5 · 156 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith The Diasporic Vision and Practice of Hoodoo ...
... prophecy that does not fit her plan for her daughter to go to Juilliard and be a great musician. This reasoning does not explain why she lets her daughter be raped approximately fifty times, however (102–3). Angela resents the ...
... prophetic vision in the Old Testament and the New Testament.12 “The light and the darkness had kissed each other, and were married now, forever, in the life and the vision of John's soul. I, John, saw a city, way in the middle of the ...
... prophecy from the mountain” revealing the Word, which is Jesus Christ, just as the apostle John and John the Baptist did. Shirley S. Allen describes John's great promise at the conclusion: “Because of all the [biblical] allusions, all ...
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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 |