Engaging Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus with Bonhoeffer: Panel Discussion on Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance , by Reggie Williams

Clifford  Green

doi:10.52214/btpp.v1i1.12450

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Published Feb 28, 2024

DOI https://doi.org/10.52214/btpp.v1i1.12450

Clifford Green

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Bonhoeffer’s self-interpretation in relation to Williams’ reading of the Harlem Renaissance. Influences of Bonhoeffer’s Union Seminary theological discussion group of friends, and the preaching of Adam Clayton Powell Sr. Question: the relative impacts on Bonhoeffer of the Sermon on the Mount and the Harlem Renaissance. Bonhoeffer’s newly found 1934 letter to Gandhi is a development of his 1931 thinking in New York. Reviewing Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus poses questions regarding Bonhoeffer and the proletariat in Germany, and also his theological concept of Stellvertretung . Query: Why no reference to Josiah Young’s No Difference in the Fare?

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Black Theology Papers 2015

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Author Meets Critic: Reggie Williams’ Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance (Baylor University Press, 2014)

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Green, C. . (2024). Engaging Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus with Bonhoeffer: Panel Discussion on Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance , by Reggie Williams. Black Theology Papers Project, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.52214/btpp.v1i1.12450

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