- Collection:
- Interdenominational Theological Center Faculty Publications
- Title:
- Christian Theology And AfroCultures: Toward An Afrikan Centered Hermeneutic (web resource), February 27, 2018
- Creator:
- Lomax, Mark Ogunwale
- Date of Original:
- 2018-02-27
- Subject:
- Theology--Study and teaching
Pan-Africanism - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
- Medium:
- publications (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The block buster movie Black Panther turns long-held worldviews upside down in an hour and thirty-four minutes. It takes the ugly, messy, morally and destructive story of Afrikan experience in the “white” world and posits a counter-narrative that simultaneously deconstructs the carefully constructed and derogatory image of Africa and Africans and constructs a hope-filled eschatological vision borne on the wings of African ancestral legacy. This article argues for the need of an Afrikan-centered Christian hermeneutic born of a reconsideration of the religio-cultural and social antecedents of both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament as well as the development of a prophetic vision that sees in Wakanda an image of the Reigndom of God where Afrikans walk in the fullness of their humanity for the benefit of all people.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/itc.ir:2018_lomax
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Interdenominational Theological Center Faculty Publications||https://btpbase.org/christian-theology-and-afrocultures-toward-an-afrikan-centered-hermeneutic/
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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