Table of Contents

Introduction: Black Faith and Public Talk, Dwight N. Hopkins

Part I: Black Faith and Religious Themes

1. Black Theology and Human Identity, Cornel West

2. The Black Church and Religious Freedom, Stephen L. Carter

3. African American Thought: The Discovery of Fragments, David Tracy

Part II: Black Faith and Prophetic Faith Communities

4. Black Theology on Theological Education, Dwight N. Hopkins

5. Racism and the Church: An Inquiry into the Contradictions between Experience, Doctrine, and Theological Theory, Jamie. T Phelps

6. Black Leadership, Faith, and the Struggle for Freedom, Manning Marble

7. Black Theology and the Parish Ministry, J. Alfred Smith, Sr.

8. An Underground Theology, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

Part III: Black Faith and Women

9. Searching for Paradise in a World of Theme Parks, Emilie M. Townes

10. Servanthood Revisited: Womanist Explorations of Servanthood Theology, Jacquelyn Grant

11. Disrupted/Disruptive Movements: Black Theology and Black Power 1969/1999, Renée Leslie Hill

12. Reimagining Public Discourse, Rebecca S. Chopp

Part IV: Black Faith and the Third World

13. Liberation Theology and African Women's Theologies, Rosemary Radford Ruether

14. Emancipatory Christianity, Linda E. Thomas

15. Black Latin American Theology: A New Way to Sense, to Feel, and to Speak of God, Silvia Regina de Lima Silva

Part V: Black Faith, James H. Cone, and the Future of Black Theology

16. Race and Civil Society: A Democratic Conversation, Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem

17. Comparing the Public Theologies of James H. Cone and Martin Luther King, Jr., Peter J. Paris

18. Black Theology at the Turn of the Century: Some Unmet Needs and Challenges, Gayraud S. Wilmore

19. Looking Back, Going Forward: Black Theology as Public Talk, James H. Cone