Defending Black Faith: Answers to Tough Questions About African-American Christianity

✍ Scribed by Craig S. Keener, Glenn Usry

• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Edition: PRINT-ON-DEMAND
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Craig Keener and Glenn Usry's highly acclaimed Black Man's Religion showed in impressive detail that Christianity and Afrocentricity can go together. Now they turn to specific, nitty-gritty questions put to the black church by non-Christians:

• Is everything good in Christianity plagiarized from traditional African religions?
• Isn't it intolerant to say Christ is the only way to God?
• Is the Bible reliable?
• What about criticisms of Christianity made by the Nation of Islam?

Keener and Usry meet these and other important questions head-on, providing responses relevant to and especially for black men and women.

✦ Table of Contents

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Introduction
Acknowledgments
A Black Religion
Abyssinia
What Do You Say When a Muslim Says Christians Were Proslavery?
Conclusion
Slaves and Bible Interpretation
Cultures and Christianity
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Conclusion
Ho w Do We Answer the Nation of Islam?
ElUah Muhammad on the Resurrection
Challenges to Christian Teaching
Responses to Some of N.O.I.’s Claims
Where Elijah Muhammad Was Right
Conclusion
How Do We Answer Orthodox Muslim Attacks on Christianity?
Responses to Some of Deedat’s Claims
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Conclusion
How Do We Answer Other Challenges to Christianity?
Misunderstandings of the THnlty
Did Jesus Plagiarize Heracles?
Weaknesses in Historical Understanding
Allegorizing the Bible
Conclusion
Are the Gospels Really Thie?
When Scholars Fudge
The Gospels as Historical Documents
A Specific Case: The Resurrection
The Reliability of the Texts
Objections to Viewing the Gospels as Historically Accurate
Why Does It Matter?
Tolerance Versus Relativism
Are All Religions the Same?
What Does “Christianity” Teach?
The New Testament Evidence
Paul’s Letters
Christ, Not Culture
New Testament Evidence Reconsidered
Questions That This Discussion Raises
What About People Who Have Never Heard?
The Great Divorce
Changing the Situation
Conclusion
Closing Words
One Example of How the Bible Does Relate to Egyptian and Other Ancient Cultures
The Accuracy of Accounts in the Pentateuch
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Notes
Introduction