Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation [[electronic resource] ] : Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon / / by Eboni Marshall Turman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790726303321
• Autore: Turman Eboni Marshall
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-349-47782-6; 1-137-37388-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Collana: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
• Disciplina: 230.082
• Soggetti: Womanist theology; Black theology; Feminist theology; Incarnation; Sociology of Religion; Biblical Studies; Religious Studies, general; Christian Theology; Christianity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The politics of incarnation : a theological perspective -- Moving the body : the logic of incarnation in theoethical perspective -- The problem of incarnation : theorizing the veil -- Bodies and souls : the moral problem of "making men" -- Beyond the veil : toward a womanist ethic of incarnation -- On the parousia : the Black body electric.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's oppression persists in black churches that espouse theological and ethical commitment to justice? Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation engages the Chalcedonian definition of faith as the starting point for exploring the body as a moral dilemma. Marshall Turman asserts that the body of Christ has historically posed a problem ; for the church, and has produced a Christian trajectory of violence that has resulted in the breaking of the body of Christ. A survey of the black body as an American problem provides the lens for understanding how the theological problem of body has functioned as a social dilemma for black people. An exploration of the black Social Gospel as the primary theological trajectory that has approached the problem of embodied difference reveals how body injustice, namely sexism, functions behind the veil of race in black churches. (Publisher).