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Books by Brian K. Blount
Cultural
Interpretations /
Then
The Whisper Put On Flesh /
Go
Preach! Mark’s Kingdom Message
Can I Get A Witness /
True to Our Native Land
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Then the
Whisper Put on Flesh
New Testament Ethics an African
American Context
By Brian K. Blount
Reviews
In this
illuminating study, Brian Blount helps readers--especially those
who have not lived in oppressed circumstances--to understand the
new testament from the perspective of an oppressed people.
Through careful analysis he demonstrates how interpreting New
Testament writings from the point of view of African American
slaves reveals the underlying message of liberation in the
biblical texts. Then the
Then the Whisper Put on Fleshinvigorates the
study of New Testament ethics and initiates new openings for
conversation across cultural lines.—Abingdon Press, Publisher
Brian Blount
approaches the New Testament from the perspective of enslaved
African peoples in America. He argues that these African slaves
imported no new information to the biblical text but
discovered within it answers to their most pressing questions
concerning the nature of evil and their quest for freedom. With
a broad brush that surveys the whole of the New Testament,
Blount contends that liberation themes are the central concerns
of each New Testament writer.
Then the Whisper Put on Flesh
is a basic primer in New Testament ethics that will have
enduring power.—Peter J. Paris,
Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of
Christian Social Ethics, Princeton Theological Seminary
Imagine an American
slave reading the New Testament in collaboration with a
respected member of the guild of New Testament scholarship. This
book gives voice both to the hermeneutics of the slave and to
the exegetical skills of the guild. The result of the
conversation is an intriguing and challenging retrieval of new
testament ethics. Euro-Americans could learn much, both about
the African American heritage and about scripture, by attending
to this conversation. Brian Blount should be thanked, and his
book should be widely read.—Allen D. Verhey,
Professor of
Religion, Hope College
Contents
| Preface |
9 |
| 1. Liberation as Lens |
13 |
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2. Reconfigured Ethics |
23 |
| 3. The Synoptic Gospels: Kingdom Ethics |
45 |
| 4. John: The Christology of Active
Resistance |
93 |
| 5. Paul: Theology Enabling Liberating
Ethics--Sometimes |
119 |
| 6. Revelation: The Witness of Active
Resistance |
158 |
| 7. New Testament Ethics Through an African
American Lens; Some Concluding Thoughts |
185 |
| Notes |
192 |
| Bibliography |
213 |
| Index |
223 |
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Source:
Then the Whisper Put on Flesh
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Professor Blount's most recent publications include a volume edited
along with Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, Making
Room At The Table: An Invitation To Multicultural Worship
(WJK, 2000),
Then
The Whisper Put On Flesh: New Testament Ethics In An
African American Context (Abingdon, 2001) and Struggling
With Scripture, with Walter Brueggemann and William Placher (WJK, 2002). He has also completed an
article entitled, "Teaching Across Borders: Experimental
Biblical Pedagogy." It is awaiting publication in the
journal SEMEIA. He has been working jointly with Dr. Gary W.
Charles, pastor of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in
Alexandria, VA, on Preaching
Mark In Two Voices (Westminster John Knox, 2003).
Professor Blount will do the John Albert
Hall Lectures for the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
at the University of Victoria in Vancouver, Canada in the Fall
of 2003. Sometime during this period he anticipates the
publication of the Discipleship
Study Bible by Westminister John Knox Press. He is
an editor along with Professors W. Sibley Towner, Bruce Birch,
and Gail R. O'Day. He has also written the introduction
and notes for Mark and Matthew. Currently, he is
preparing a commentary on the Book of Revelation (WJK). |
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Brian K. Blount, associate professor
of New Testament, earned his M.Div. from Princeton in 1981, when
he received the Edler Garnet Hawkins Award for Scholastic
Excellence. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Dr. Blount served
for six years as pastor of Carver Presbyterian Church in Newport
News, Virginia, before returning to academia in 1988 as a
Woodruff Fellow at Emory University. Within the field of New
Testament studies, he specializes in the Kingdom of God language
in the Gospel of Mark, New Testament ethics, the relationship of
the New Testament to the Black church, and Revelation. His recent publications include Cultural
Interpretations: Reorienting New Testament Criticism and Go
Preach! Mark’s Kingdom Message and the Black Church Today.
Forthcoming are a book on New Testament ethics for Abingdon
Press and a commentary on Revelation for Westminster John Knox
Press.
Brian K. Blount
110 Stockton Street 497-7836 brian.blount@ptsem.edu |
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
By Gil Scott Heron
Shortly after we republished The Vulture and The Nigger Factory, Gil started to tell me about The Last Holiday, an account he was writing of a multi-city tour that he ended up doing with Stevie Wonder in late 1980 and early 1981. Originally Bob Marley was meant to be playing the tour that Stevie Wonder had conceived as a way of trying to force legislation to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. At the time, Marley was dying of cancer, so Gil was asked to do the first six dates. He ended up doing all 41. And Dr King's birthday ended up becoming a national holiday ("The Last Holiday because America can't afford to have another national holiday"), but Gil always felt that Stevie never got the recognition he deserved and that his story needed to be told. The first chapters of this book were given to me in New York when Gil was living in the Chelsea Hotel. Among the pages was a chapter called Deadline that recounts the night they played Oakland, California, 8 December; it was also the night that John Lennon was murdered. Gil uses Lennon's violent end as a brilliant parallel to Dr King's assassination and as a biting commentary on the constraints that sometimes lead to newspapers getting things wrong. —Jamie Byng, Guardian / Gil_reads_"Deadline" (audio) |
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies. As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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The White Masters of the
World
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The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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