ISBN: HB: 9780300264524
September 2023
632 pp.
23,4x15,6 cm
18 black&white illus.
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£40.00
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Darkly Radiant Vision
The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK
The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed importance in American life, and it remains ongoing. So Gary Dorrien argues in his groundbreaking trilogy of books on the history of Black social Christianity. Following his Grawemeyer Award-winning book "The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel" (2015) and his "Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel" (2018), this third, concluding volume offers an interpretation of Black social Christianity since the early 1970s.
Beginning in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr., it examines the past fifty years of this intellectual and activist tradition, interpreting its politics, theology, ethics, social criticism, and social justice organizing. Considering the intersection of Black social Christianity with liberation theology, womanist theology, the LGBTQ+ movement, critical theory, antiracism efforts, progressive religion, broad-based interfaith organizing, global solidarity politics, and more, Dorrien shows how those who carried on the struggle in King's name were often lifted by King's moral example.
"A Darkly Radiant Vision" features in-depth discussions of Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Gayraud Wilmore, James Cone, Cornel West, Katie Geneva Cannon, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Traci Blackmon, William J. Barber II, Raphael G. Warnock, and many others.
Beginning in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr., it examines the past fifty years of this intellectual and activist tradition, interpreting its politics, theology, ethics, social criticism, and social justice organizing. Considering the intersection of Black social Christianity with liberation theology, womanist theology, the LGBTQ+ movement, critical theory, antiracism efforts, progressive religion, broad-based interfaith organizing, global solidarity politics, and more, Dorrien shows how those who carried on the struggle in King's name were often lifted by King's moral example.
"A Darkly Radiant Vision" features in-depth discussions of Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Gayraud Wilmore, James Cone, Cornel West, Katie Geneva Cannon, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Traci Blackmon, William J. Barber II, Raphael G. Warnock, and many others.
About the author
Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of seventeen books that range across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, and history. His most recent book, "Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology", won the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers as the best book in Theology and Religious Studies of 2012. He lives in New York.