We Belong To Big Church: Caribbean Soundings and Stories in Anglicania

What does it mean to be Black, Anglican and West Indian all at the same time? Does it require any cultural or emotional adjustments to become a full-fledged member of the worldwide Anglican communion? This book seeks to answer these questions in a number of ways from experiences and presentations throughout the Caribbean and North America. Caribbean Anglicanism is presented as a vibrant tapestry of enriching engagement. Kortright Davis has given his readers a comprehensive collection of stories and insights that portray some multicultural, inter-cultural, and pluralistic challenges encountered by people of color, whether at home or on foreign soils.

Religion & Spirituality

Davis, Kortright

Christian Books & Bibles

Tellwell Talent

Changing Winds of Change: Scrambling with Antillean God-Questions

The people of the Antilles (Caribbean) have historically been surrounded by the rages and surges of changing winds, and the transforming effects of forces and faith-forms of alienating powers. Their struggles to survive in the face of heavily countervailing systems, structures, and strengths have constantly been marked by their determination to rely on their spiritual, cultural, communal, and creative skills and imaginations. These struggles have often driven them to scramble relentlessly with questions of fate, facts, faith, and the future. Where (how) is God in the mix of these Antillean experiences? What meanings do these Antillean winds portend? God-questions abound at home and abroad, with changing winds of fortune and undulating circumstances. This book brings together an anthology of contemporary topics, historical reflections, and theological explorations that will invite readers into an ongoing dialogue towards the rediscovery of the Caribbean (Antillean) sources of light, life, and liberation.

Compassionate Love and Ebony Grace: Christian Altruism and People of Color

Why is the Golden Rule so central in almost every culture and religion? What is it that drives human beings to do good to others? Are altruism, compassion, and forgiveness natural forms of human behavior, or do they have to be learned and practiced in the neural context of our primal instincts for survival and self-defense? These are some of the questions that lie behind the study of Compassionate Love amongst people of color. Davis explores the patterns and contours of “other-love,” which he defines as a selfless regard for the well-being of others. He also examines the basis for distinctive modes of compassionate behavior enriched by “ebony grace”—a theological attribution for people of African descent. This text focuses especially on the historical, cultural, and religious heritage that inspires and empowers such attitudes, in spite of constant encounters with systemic negation, social alienation, and unrelenting racism. How is it that Black families in the home, school, and church still support, sustain, and succeed in the practice of unyielding love-in-compassion? That is the magic and mystery within contemporary Black cultural norms and moral values. This text is a powerful attempt to contribute to the debate on Christian altruism.

Self-Help

Relationships

Hamilton Books

Help for a ministry gone stale. Christianity is facing a crisis of preaching, a crisis of evangelization, and a crisis of morality; the result is a ministry that's lost all life. In this new book, prominent theologian Kortright Davis shouts a wake-up call to all Christian ministers, both ordained and lay, of every denomination. With apostolic intensity, he challenges traditional concepts of leadership and service and proposes radical new approaches to restore the vigor to ministry in this post-modern age. Serving with Power identifies seven areas of crisis common to the whole Church. Its solutions can transform all denominations while at the same time renew the strengths inherent in each. Davis' work draws from the richness of his Afro-American heritage, from a wide range of contemporary theologians and spiritual writers, and from such recent historical events as the post-apartheid South Africa and the deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa. Yet the book is always firmly rooted in the Biblical imperative to proclaim the Gospel. This dynamic work will revitalize priests, ministers, deacons, lay ministers, bishops, social activists, and theological educators.

Serving With Power: Reviving the Spirit of Christian Ministry

Paulist Pr

Emancipation Still Comin': Explorations in Caribbean Emancipatory Theology

History

Orbis Books

Whenever we enter a new congregation, we must immerse ourselves in its culture & mores just as if it were a foreign country. Bennison opens the discipline of congregational studies & its insights to clergy, church leaders, & churchgoers of all denominations endeavoring to understand, inspire, & lead the local church.

In Praise of Congregations: Leadership in the Local Church Today

Lummis, Adair T.

Bennison, Charles E., Jr.

Nesbitt, Paula D.

Cowley Pubns

The Caribbean, awash with sun and water, is a meeting place of many races, religions, and cultures. There North and South, Latin and Anglo, native Carib, African black, French and English white races and cultures meet. In a religious melting pot, Protestant and Catholic Christian, Afro-Caribbean, Hindu, and secularist faiths, intertwine, cross-pollinate, and go their ways, separate yet together, in the divine milieu. Such a place has a rich and revealing story to tell: of history, nature, and humanity; of the understanding of freedom; of the meaning and scope of theology itself. The key in Caribbean society, with its experiences of slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism, and structural dependence, is emancipation: the pursuit, proclamation, and practice of human freedom. Emancipation is the key to Caribbean theology as well. This is the focal point of Kortright Davis's work. He introduces the complex tapestry of this unique society: its social and cultural pluralism, its particular strengths and weaknesses: poverty, dependence, alienation, and divisiveness. Davis explores many aspects of Caribbean religion and spirituality, especially the complexities of carnival and its uniquely African soul. He notes too a theological dependency, and posits again a unique, Caribbean emancipatory theology to establish a theological "self-reliance." In emancipatory theology, as in Latin American liberation theology, the source for praxis and reflection is faith linked to historical experience. And the Caribbean experience, of continual struggle for identity, distinguishes and yet unites Caribbean Christians with Christians everywhere.

Wipf & Stock Publishers

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We Belong To Big Church: Caribbean Soundings and Stories in Anglicania

We Belong To Big Church: Caribbean Soundings and Stories in Anglicania

Changing Winds of Change: Scrambling with Antillean God-Questions

Changing Winds of Change: Scrambling with Antillean God-Questions

Compassionate Love and Ebony Grace: Christian Altruism and People of Color

Compassionate Love and Ebony Grace: Christian Altruism and People of Color

Serving With Power: Reviving the Spirit of Christian Ministry

Emancipation Still Comin': Explorations in Caribbean Emancipatory Theology

In Praise of Congregations: Leadership in the Local Church Today

Emancipation Still Comin': Explorations in Caribbean Emancipatory Theology