Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation, and Transformation (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religio - Paperback

by Emilie Townes (Author)

Once again, Emilie Townes brings together essays by leading womanist theologians, interweaving a concern for matters of race, gender, and class as these bear on the well-being of the African-American community. Her emphasis is not on evil and suffering, but on "hope, salvation, and transformation" for individuals and their communities.

A sequel to A Troubling in My Soul in which African American women offer stimulating and thoughtful essays for all those concerned with the life and health of the Black churches today.

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This book continues the conversations begun in Emilie Townes's path-breaking A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering. Once again, Townes brings together essays by leading womanist theologians, interweaving a concern for matters of race, gender, and class, as these bear on the survival and well-being of the African-American community. In Embracing the Spirit the emphasis is not on evil and suffering, but on "hope, salvation, and transformation" for individuals and their communities.