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  • Duppy Conqueror

    Series series My Theology
    This book contours Robert Beckford's recontextualization of African American Black and Womanist theologies of liberation. Making the black British experience a point of departure, Beckford's theological method appropriates two distinct approaches to pursue a contextual theology or a Black theology dub: first, a correlation of linguistic concepts from Black cultural history and urban life (Rahtid, ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through Praxis

    Handsworth Revolutions

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Black Religion and Cultures
    Is contemporary Black British gospel music a coloniality? What theological message is really conveyed in these songs?In this book, Robert Beckford shows how the Black British contemporary gospel music tradition is incrisis because its songs continue to be informed by colonial Christian ideas about God.Beckford explores the failure of both African and African Caribbean heritage Churches to ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Documentary as Exorcism

    Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity

    Documentary as Exorcism is an interdisciplinary study that builds upon the insights of postcolonial studies, critical race theory, theological and religious studies and media and film studies to showcase the role of documentary film as a system of signifying capable of registering complex theological ideas while pursuing the authentic aims of documentary filmmaking.Robert Beckford marries the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Jesus Dub

    Theology, Music and Social Change

    Robert Beckford explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. He highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme.Engaging with the social and cultural heritage that ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Christianity and Wokeness

    How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

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    In a world that is "woke," how many Christians are actually awake? This short, theologically sound primer is a resource for pastors, ministry leaders, community leaders, and other thinking Christians that explains carefully and clearly what Critical Race Theory and wokeness truly are, what the Bible teaches about race and ethnicity, why wokeness is distinct from Christianity and should be rejected ... Read more

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  • Creation, Power, and Truth

    The Gospel in a World of Cultural Confusion

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    In Creation, Power and Truth, N. T. Wright invites readers to consider the crucial ways in which the Christian gospel challenges and subverts the intellectual, moral, and political values that pervade contemporary culture.In doing so, he asks searching questions about three defining characteristics of our time:Neo-gnosticismNeo-imperialismPostmodernityEmploying a robust Trinitarian framework, ... Read more

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  • Ethics and Moral Reasoning

    A Student's Guide

    Series series Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition
    Gay marriage. Embryonic stem cell research. Abortion. Such generation-defining issues loom large in our society and demand a thoughtful response. Helping Christians to interact with our morally confused world, Ben Mitchell challenges the relativism so rampant in the West today. In addition to examining the history of ethical reflection from Moses to Immanuel Kant, Mitchell also incorporates the ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible

    by Musa Dube ...
    Noting that the ways of interpreting the Bible now practiced in the West are patriarchal and oppressive of those in other parts of the world, Dube offers an alternative interpretation that attends to and respects needs of women in the two-thirds world. In a provocative and insightful reading of the book of Matthew, she shows us how to read the Bible as decolonizing rather than imperialist ... Read more

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  • Different Eyes

    The Art of Living Beautifully

    We have a need today to free up the Church in its ability think through and debate its ethical responses to contemporary issues. How do we think about and respond to the issues of crime, punishment and rehabilitation, consumerism - money, banks, economics and bonuses, war and peace making, euthanasia and assisted dying, same sex relationships. etc.‘We can only act within the world we can envision… ... Read more

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  • Messianic 'I' and Rastafari in New Testament Dialogue

    Bio-Narratives, the Apocalypse, and Paul's Letter to the Romans

    Anyone familiar with the Rastafari movement and its connection with the Bible is struck by the prevalence of messianic I-locution found in both. As the phenomenon is important in the canonical Testaments, more so within the New Testament, this study seeks to investigate its significance in certain epistolary pieces (Romans 7:14-25 ; 15:14-33), the bio-Narratives and the Apocalypse in their ... Read more

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  • MissionShift

    Edited by David Hesselgrave, Ed Stetzer ...
    Veteran missionary David Hesselgrave and rising missional expert Ed Stetzer edit this engaging set of conversational essays addressing global mission issues in the third millennium. Key contributors are Charles E. Van Engen ("Mission Described and Defined"), the late Paul Hiebert ("The Gospel in Human Contexts: Changing Perspectives on Contextualization"), and the late Ralph Winter ("The Future of ... Read more

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