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Book Review: Personal Speech-Ethics In The Epistle Of James, Vincent L. Wimbush
Book Review: Personal Speech-Ethics In The Epistle Of James, Vincent L. Wimbush
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
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Book Review: Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations In Black America, Vincent L. Wimbush
Book Review: Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations In Black America, Vincent L. Wimbush
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
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Reading Texts As Reading Ourselves: A Chapter In The History Of African American Biblical Interpretation, Vincent L. Wimbush
Reading Texts As Reading Ourselves: A Chapter In The History Of African American Biblical Interpretation, Vincent L. Wimbush
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
Literature, especially religious literature, ideally aims to trigger degrees of empathy in readers who share a particular universe of meaning, with the goal of entertaining, provoking, challenging, and persuading. The literary text that has achieved something of the status of a "classic" is one that has consistently--that is, "beyond its time...beyond its space"--proved to be engaging and empathetic, consistently challenging and inspiring the spirit, provoking thoughts and arresting the imagination of those generally sharing a universe of meaning, or culture. But such texts, precisely because of their empathy-producing qualities, should also inspire among readers again and again over time a …
The Bible And African-American Culture, Vincent L. Wimbush
The Bible And African-American Culture, Vincent L. Wimbush
CGU Faculty Publications and Research
The history of the influence, uses, and functions of the Bible among African Americans is dramatic and complex, and reflects the different, sometimes conflicting, sociopolitical and religious self-understandings, orientations, and aspirations of a dominant segment, if not the great majority, of African Americans.