Author
Lorena M. Parrish Parrish
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Publisher
1517 Media
Published
November 2024
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Author
Lorena M. Parrish Parrish
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
November 2024
£21.41
Save 11%
Free UK Delivery
Due for release on 12 November 2024. Pre-order today.
We Have Plenty
Today's Price £21.41
The Black church often maintains an allegiance to white, Western approaches to wealth and material acquisition. In doing so, it can ignore Jesus's teachings on poverty, wealth, and materialism. The church's ambivalence toward Jesus's understandings of poverty and wealth uniquely impacts the spiritual and material well-being of Black women and the Black community. As a womanist theologian, Lorena Parrish argues that the Black church needs a new, liberative way forward.
In We Have Plenty, Parrish traces the history of theologies of prosperity to help scholars and practitioners understand the long-standing appearance of prosperity gospels in the Western church. In doing so, she explores selected sermons and writings of St. Augustine, John Calvin, John Wesley, and Walter Rauschenbusch to show how theologies of prosperity have long been embedded in mainline Christianity, sometimes imperceptibly so. Parrish argues that recognizing these trajectories is critical for the Black church's capacity to foster pathways toward communal liberation and wholeness.
Parrish offers a womanist theology that hearkens to the liberative work of Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farm Collective and illumines contemporary initiatives that cultivate pathways toward Black communal abundance. Parrish shows how equipping Black church pastors and community leaders with tools to build similar strategies better positions the church and community, in turn, to promote more equitable human relations and communal asset-building and sharing. We Have Plenty offers a moral imagination for theologians, church leaders, and community activists to envision Black communal abundance and thriving in light of Jesus's teachings.
Author
Lorena M. Parrish Parrish
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
November 2024
Weight
318g
Dimensions
159 x 235 mm
ISBN
9781506499314
ISBN-10
1506499317
Eden Code
6722021
More Information
Author/Creator: Lorena M. Parrish Parrish
ISBN: 9781506499314
Publisher: 1517 Media
Release Date: November 2024
Weight: 318g
Dimensions: 159 x 235 mm
Eden Code: 6722021