TY - JOUR
AU - Trulear, Harold Dean
AB - Book Reviews Harold A. Carter, Wyatt Tee Walker, and William A. Jones, Jr. The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Martin Luther King Fellows Press, I 99 r. 103 pp. Recent debates concerning the reclamation of a " public theology" in the postmodern era are rendered suspect by their failure to take the black church into consideration. Such a myopic view is all the more troubling considering that the most visible and articulate pub ­ lic theologian of this century was Martin Luther King, Jr., a son of the black church. King's role as a public theologian influenced the careers of a generation of African American clergy committed to Christian social praxis, a combination of critical reflection on social realities and ongoing activism for social change, both framed by the mandates of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Three of these clergy; Harold A. Carter, Wyatt Tee Walker, and William A. Jones, Jr., have collabo­ rated for a second time (The Black Church Looks at th e Bicentennial was their first effort in 1976) to produce a text of "public theology" that uses the role of the black church in the United States as the point of 
TI - The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future
JF - Black Sacred Music
DO - 10.1215/10439455-7.1.80
DA - 1993-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/the-african-american-church-past-present-and-future-v1PYVZ9CFQ
SP - 80
EP - 82
VL - 7
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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