Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - 264 páginas "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... oppression, only faith can contain the unfathomable evil of the past and present and project future deliverance from it. InGo Tell It on the Mountain, the black slave woman Rachel is illiterate, but she knows the story of God's ...
... oppression, and suffering; the New Testament story of Christ and the doctrine of saving grace; and prescriptions of ... oppressive arbitrariness of God's purpose as it is revealed throughout the Bible. Verse 26 says, “And it shall come ...
... oppression, that aids individual and collective survival and salvation, or that justifies what is beyond the scope of human understanding. Most broadly, faithful vision is the saving, sustaining belief that African Americans find ...
... oppression and hardship based on the voodoo or hoodoo religion.3 These narratives engage Christianity in relationships of syncretism and revise the Bible and Christian theology, and voodoo/hoodoo may be a construction that opposes them ...
... oppression. The novel's faithful vision is not otherworldly; it addresses good and evil in this world in terms of the individual—mainly Abeba's life—and the historical, which is the unfathomable evil represented by the “hundred million ...
Contenido
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03 Critiquing Christian Belief | 77 |
04 Rejecting God and Redefining Faith | 118 |
05 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith | 156 |
Fiction Life and Faitful Vision | 197 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 245 |
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