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251 Abolitionism, 27 African American Christians/Christianity, 8, 9, 30, 84, 117, 140, 143, 150, 181 African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, 14–15, 16, 24 African religions, 101 Africentrism, 139, 149 “Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants” (Luther), 47 Alamo Black Clergy, 134 Alexander, Lucretia, 26 Allen, Richard, 15, 17, 92 Altizer, Thomas, 86 AME Church, 14–15, 16, 24 American Academy of Religion, 145, 158 American Christianity, 69, 128 American churches, 8, 14, 27, 45–48 “Americanity,” 118 American religious life assumptions, 70–71 American Revolution, 23, 198n28 America’s original sin, racism as, 120, 149, 225n80 Ancient Israel, 180 Anderson, Victor, 139 Andrews, Dale P., 4, 6 Antebellum black church. See Firstgeneration black theologians Antichrist, 90, 91 Antislavery efforts, 27 Apologia, 141 “Are American Negro Churches Christian?” (Washington, J.), 53 Atonement, 163 “Autobiography of Religious Development ” (King, M., Jr.), 73 Azusa Street Revival, 25, 30, 100, 183 Baker-Fletcher, Karen, 154 Barth, Karl, 89, 90, 91, 92, 214n51 Beale, Frances, 157 Beloved community, 37, 60, 138, 188, 189 Bentley, William H., 140 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 170 Biblical fundamentalism, 140–43, 150, 173 Biblical hermeneutics, 25, 84, 121, 177, 178 Biblical witness, 19, 105, 115, 137, 178, 180, 184 Bifurcated soteriology, 177 Black caucuses, 61, 67–68, 209n44 Black Christ, 66, 116, 122, 123, 127, 137–39, 181, 182 Black Christian nationalism, 104–7 Black Christian resistance, 2; historical chronology of, 20; liberationist church, 20, 26–31; liberationist faith, 10, 20, 22– 26, 32, 33, 38, 75, 177; liberationist movement , 10, 20, 31–34; moments of, 20–22, 59–69, 174; to racism, 9, 11, 19–34, 69, 75, 130, 197n18; self-conscious liberationist theology, 20 Black Christians/Christianity, 3, 5, 9, 10, 26 INDEX 252 Index Black churches: antislavery efforts of, 27; benefits for, 186; black theology and, 4, 5, 61, 75–77, 84–85, 144, 173; burden of, 1; centrality of, 2–3, 17; Christian identity of, 76, 139, 141, 142; criticism of, 76, 210n2; current identity crisis of, 175; definitions of, 8, 9; deradicalization of, 97–99; Du Bois on, 76, 78, 79, 84, 210n3; as evangelical , 3, 36; as faith community, 78, 108; freedom fight by, 13, 29, 30, 176, 178; gender contradictions in, 9, 11; gospel of liberation, 13–19, 76; historical interpretation of, 2; history of, 1; as invisible, 9, 20, 22–26; Obama and, 143–52; as otherworldly , 80, 81; perpetual decline of, 78; political consciousness of, 31–32; primacy of, 108; problem of, 78, 80; radical protest and, 13, 14, 29; as refuge, 27; responsibilities of, 72, 77; revivalistic piety of, 13, 14, 22, 30, 82; role of, 79; scholarship on, 78–79; separatist identity of, 10, 30; slaves and, 13, 195n1; social action of, 177; social transformation in, 118; theological reflection on, 2, 15, 19, 21; third moment and, 176–81; white theology and, 15–19. See also Independent black church movement ; Liberationist black churches Black churches’ mission, 1, 6, 10, 192n13; black theologians on, 75–116; Christianity of, 53; gospel’s meaning and, 53–74; theology of, 53–54; womanist theologians and, 3, 11–12, 153–72 “The Black Church Freedom Movement,” 27 The Black Church in the African American Experience (Lincoln and Mamiya), 8, 198n34 “The Black Church Is Dead,” 2, 191n6 The Black Church since Frazier (Lincoln), 85 “Black Consciousness and the Black Church: An Historical-Theological Interpretation” (Cone, J.), 94 Black ecclesiology of involvement, 99–101 Black Evangelical Association, 140 Black evangelicalism, black theology and, 136–37 Black faith, 53, 195n6; institutionalization of, 174; pietistic side of, 13–14; theological principle for, 113–15; Joseph Washington on, 57, 58 Black intellectuals, Negro church, and racial uplift, 79–85 Black liberation theology, 10, 11 Black male theologians, 155–56, 157 Black messiahs, 100 Black messianism, 69, 139, 209n47 Black Methodists for Church Renewal, 67–68 Black Nation Israel, 106 Blackness: as detheologization, 122–24; ontological, 139; power of, 130, 131; symbol , 118, 120, 131; as theology of polarization , 125–28 Black pastors: black Christ, King, Jr., and, 137–39; black theologians and, 5, 6, 10, 13, 75, 76; fifth moment and, 185–89; liberation and, 116, 119, 120; radical, 158; work of, 4 Black power, 2, 5; Christianity is, 92; ecclesiology of, 136; hermeneutics of, 105; slogan of, 62–63, 207nn24–26; statement of, 68 Black radicalism, dewomanization of, 166, 167–72, 228n40 Black religion, 2 Black Religion and Black Radicalism (Wilmore), 14, 97, 98 Black Religion: The Negro and Christianity in the United States...