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- University of Illinois Press
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- 2156-4795
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Abstract
American Journal of Theology and Philosophy the parental metaphor. A life that begins with a birth announcement will end with an obituary, and shults's compelling text asks us to come to grips with the former so that we might aid in the writing of the later. Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism. carol Wayne White. new york: fordham university Press, 2016. 157 pp. $25 cloth. (reviewed by gary slater, st. edward's university) it speaks to the illogic of our public life that the slogan "All lives matter" has come to stand directly against "black lives matter" within contemporary discourse on race. carol Wayne White's Black Lives and Sacred Humanity, among its other achievements, confirms the absurdity of such an opposition. White shows how historic efforts to defend and define the humanity of African Americans offer a vision in which all human lives do not simply matter but are in fact sacred within nature. White's effort to marshal elements within the black tradition to develop her notion of sacred humanity succeeds; in fact, the entailments of her arguments go further still. in addition to undermining the binary of black lives/all lives, the book effectively
Journal
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 22, 2017