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Dread and Pentecostal: a Political Theology for the Black Church in Britain
 
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Dread and Pentecostal: a Political Theology for the Black Church in Britain (Hardcover)

by Robert Beckford (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: SPCK Publishing (19 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0281051364
  • ISBN-13: 978-0281051366
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 819,731 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A systematic attempt to construct a Black British theology of liberation, as opposed to Black Christian theology which, in the author's assessment, simply reacts to and draws inspiration from European and American theologies. Black Christian theology is primarily concerned with church life, worship and witness, whereas Black liberation theology seeks empowerment through social and political change. The author uses arguments from ancient and contemporary history, and from previous studies of the Black church, and looks for sources for a new liberation approach.

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This book develops a political theology for Black Pentecostal Churches in Britain. Beckford argues that the Black Church as a part of Black Atlantic cultural and political traditions is influenced by a plethora of spiritual, political and social forces. These include histories of oppression and resistance. By taking seriously the traditions of resistance, he suggests that the Black Church is provided with resources for developing a holistic theology that engages explicitly with the social and political world, that is, what he calls a liberating theological praxis.

This political theology takes seriously the cultural, theological and political issues raised in African Caribbean resistance, in particular the concept of dread in Rastafari. Within several of the chapters Black Church traditions of resistance are exposed by 'imposing' upon this history and theology the Rastafarian concept of dread. This conjunction produces a theological paradigm called dread Pentecostalism.

Dread Pentecostalism as a theological system nurtures the theological sensibilities found within a theological method that Beckford calls liberating theological praxis. One product of dread Pentecostalism is its hermeneutical focus known as dread hermeneutics. Dread hermeneutics is the basis for a political re-reading of the Bible from a Black Political Pentecostal context. This political focus is demonstrated in a re-evaluation of Christology in order to construct a dread Christ.

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