Description
Book SynopsisFollows Dietrich Bonhoeffer as he defies Germany with Harlem's black Jesus. The Christology Bonhoeffer learned in Harlem's churches featured a black Christ who suffered with African Americans in their struggle against systemic injustice and racial violence - and then resisted.
Table of Contents
- Foreword to the Revised Edition (Ferdinand Schlingensiepen)
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Introduction
- 1. To Harlem and Back: Seeing Jesus with New Eyes
- 2. A Theology of Resistance in the Harlem Renaissance
- 3. Bonhoeffer in the Veiled Corner: Jesus in the Harlem Renaissance
- 4. Christ, Empathy, and Confrontation at Abyssinian Baptist Church
- 5. Christ-Centered Empathic Resistance: Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus in Germany
- Conclusion
