No Longer Slaves: Galatians and African American Experience

by Braxton, Brad Ronnell

• ISBN13: 9780814659489
• ISBN10: 0814659489
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Michael Glazier

Summary

While slavery has been outlawed in the United States since the Civil War, a form of slavery that is ideological in nature holds numerous African Americans in bondage. In No Longer Slaves Brad Braxton brings the New Testament message of Galatians into conversation with the African American culture, a message that echoes Paul's directive that the Galatians need not any longer be slaves to their oppressors.

Author Biography

Brad Ronnell Braxton is the Jessie Ball duPont Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Biblical Studies at the Wake Forest University Divinity School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Liberation and African American Experience	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Liberation: Rationales and Definitions	p. 2
Blackness: Biology and Ideology	p. 6
African American Biblical Interpretation	p. 12
A Reading Strategy for Liberation	p. 28
Reader-Response Criticism and Black and Womanist Theologies	p. 28
The Bible and Authority in Reader-Response Criticism	p. 32
The African American (Christian) Interpretive Community	p. 38
Galatians and African American Experience	p. 54
Introduction	p. 54
Historical Overview	p. 54
Interpretations	p. 56
Galatians 1:1-9	p. 57
Galatians 2:1-10	p. 64
Galatians 2:11-21	p. 71
Galatians 3:1-5	p. 84
Galatians 3:6-14	p. 86
Galatians 3:26-29	p. 92
Galatians 4:1-11	p. 96
Galatians 5:13-26	p. 102
Conclusion	p. 109
Bibliography	p. 127
Index	p. 139
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