A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Christianity, Violence, and Theology (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)

K. Lampley

$65.99

Publication Date: August 23rd, 2013

Publisher:

Palgrave MacMillan

ISBN:

9781349459230

Pages:

196

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Description

In this unique volume, Lampley analyzes the theology of Nat Turner's violent slave rebellion in juxtaposition with Old Testament views of prophetic violence and Jesus' politics of violence in the New Testament and in consideration of the history of Christian violence and the violence embedded in traditional Christian theology.

About the Author

Karl Lampley is a research scholar at the University of Chicago Divinity School

A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Christianity, Violence, and Theology (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)

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