Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering write by Sherman A. Jackson. This book was released on 2009. Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his controversial 1973 book, Is God a White Racist?, William R. Jones sharply criticized black theologians for their agnostic approach to black suffering, noting that the doctrine of an ominibenevolent God poses very significant problems for a perennially oppressed community. He proposed a "humanocentric theism" which denies God's sovereignty over human history and imputes autonomous agency to humans. By rendering humans alone responsible for moral evil, Jones's theology freed blacks to revolt against the evil of oppression without revolting against God. Sherman Jackson now places Jones's argument in conversation with the classical schools of Islamic theology. The problem confronting the black community is not simply proving that God exists, says Jackson. The problem, rather, is establishing that God cares. No religious expression that fails to tackle the problem of black suffering can hope to enjoy a durable tenure in the black community. For the Muslim, therefore, it is essential to find a Quranic/Islamic grounding for the protest-oriented agenda of black religion. That is the task Jackson undertakes in this pathbreaking work. Jackson's previous book, Islam and the Blackamerican (OUP 2006) laid the groundwork for this ambitious project. Its sequel, Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering, solidifies Jackson's reputation as the foremost theologian of the black American Islamic movement.
Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil
Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil write by Safaruk Chowdhury. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and suffering in the world. At its core, Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil explores four different problems of evil: human disability, animal suffering, evolutionary natural selection, and Hell. Each study argues in favor of a particular kind of explanation or justification (theodicy) for the respective evil. Safaruk Chowdhury unpacks the notion of evil and its conceptualization within the mainstream Sunni theological tradition, and the various ways in which theologians and philosophers within that tradition have advanced different types of theodicies. He not only builds on previous works on the topic, but also looks at kinds of theodicies previously unexplored within Islamic theology, such as an evolutionary theodicy. Distinguished by its application of an analytic-theology approach to the subject and drawing on insights from works of both medieval Muslim theologians and philosophers and contemporary philosophers of religion, this novel and highly systematic study will appeal to students and scholars, not only of theology but of philosophy as well.
Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering
Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering write by Sherman A. Jackson. This book was released on 2009. Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The problem confronting the black community is not simply proving that God exists, says Jackson. The problem, rather, is establishing that God cares. For the Muslim, therefore, it is essential to find a Quranic/Islamic grounding for the protest-oriented agenda of black religion.
Is God A White Racist?
Is God A White Racist? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Is God A White Racist? write by William R. Jones. This book was released on 1997-11-30. Is God A White Racist? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published originally as part of C. Eric Lincoln's series on the black religious experience, Is God a White Racist? is a landmark critique of the black church's treatment of evil and the nature of suffering. In this powerful examination of the early liberation methodology of James Cone, J. Deotis Roberts, and Joseph Washington, among others, Jones questions whether their foundation for black Christian theism—the belief in an omnibenevolent God who has dominion over human history—can provide an adequate theological foundation to effectively dismantle the economic, social, and political framework of oppression. Seeing divine benevolence as part of oppression's mechanism of disguise, Jones argues that black liberation theologians must adopt a new theism that is informed by humanism and its principle of the functional ultimacy of wo/man, where human choice and action determine whether our condition is slavery or freedom.
Islam and the Blackamerican
Islam and the Blackamerican - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam and the Blackamerican write by Sherman A. Jackson. This book was released on 2005-04-14. Islam and the Blackamerican available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dismissing the idea that an 'African connection' explains the spread of Islam amongst African Americans, Sherman Jackson explores the complex factors that have given rise to the Black Muslim movement & finds answers in both African American religious traditions & the doctrines of the faith.
