Reading Black Books ¿ How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just av Claude Atcho

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<b><i>Christianity Today </i></b><b>2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts)<br/></b><br/>Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. <i>Reading Black Books </i>helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American literature.<br/><br/>Pastor and teacher Claude Atcho offers a theological approach to 10 seminal texts of 20th-century African American literature. Each chapter takes up a theological category for inquiry through a close literary reading and theological reflection on a primary literary text, from Ralph Ellison''s <i>Invisible Man </i>and Richard Wright''s <i>Native Son </i>to Zora Neale Hurston''s <i>Moses, Man of the Mountain </i>and James Baldwin''s <i>Go Tell It on the Mountain</i>. The book includes end-of-chapter discussion questions.<br/><br/><i>Reading Black Books </i>helps readers of all backgrounds learn from the contours of Christian faith fo