African American Readings of Paul <subTitle>Reception, Resistance, and Tranformation</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Bowens, Lisa M.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">5:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.</publisher> <dateIssued>2020</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>335tr.</extent> <extent>hardcover, illustrations</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>The letters of Paul--especially the verse in Ephesians directing slaves to obey their masters--played an enormous role in promoting slavery and justifying it as a Christian practice. Yet despite this reality African Americans throughout history still utilized Paul extensively in their own work to protest and resist oppression, responding to his theology and teachings in numerous--often starkly divergent and liberative--ways. In the first book of its kind, Lisa Bowens takes a historical, theological, and biblical approach to explore interpretations of Paul within African American communities over the past few centuries. She surveys a wealth of primary sources from the early 1700s to the mid-twentieth century, including sermons, conversion stories, slave petitions, and autobiographies of ex-slaves, many of which introduce readers to previously unknown names in the history of New Testament interpretation.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Lisa M. Bowens</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>African Americans Religion History</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Slavery Religious aspects Christianity</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">227.06089</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B786-L77</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802876768</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13684/080287676501-sx180-sclzzzzzzz.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13684/080287676501-sx180-sclzzzzzzz.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071259.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>