In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists. Rejecting the assumption of theism as the African American orientation, Pinn poses a crucial question: What is a non-theistic theology? In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumptionthat African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumptionhas stunted African American theological discourse and excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists. Rejecting the assumption of theism as the African American orientation, Pinn poses a crucial question: What is a non-theistic theology?The End of God-Talk outlines the first systematic African American non-theistic theology. Pinn offers a new center for theological inquiry, grounded in a more scientific notion of the human than the imago Dei ideas that dominates African American theistic theologies. He proposes a turn to Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Alice Walker in order to effect a sense of ethical conduct consistent with African American non-theistic humanism. The End of God-Talk ends with anexploration of the religious significance of ordinary spaces and activities as settings for humanist theological engagement.Through a turn to embodied human life as the proper arena and content of theologizing, Pinn opens up a new theological path with important implications forongoing work in African American religious studies. INDICE: Acknowledgements Note on Terminology Introduction Chapter One: TheOrdinary as Theological Source Material Chapter Two: Community as Centering Category Chapter Three: The Humanist Human - Self, Subject, Subjectivity Chapter Four: On Theologizing Symmetry Chapter Five: African American Humanist Ethics Chapter Six: Humanist Celebration and the Ritualizing of Life Conclusion: Theologizing at the End of God-Talk Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-534083-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés