Pressing Toward the Mark: Christian Ethics for the Black Church Today
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Overview
E. Hammond Oglesby offers a new method of moral discourse that can speak to ongoing critical issues in the black community, such as the AIDS pandemic, an absence of young-adult participation in many black churches, and a continuing battle against racism. In Pressing Toward the Mark, he demonstrates that ordinary people of faith become ethical not by chance but by choice. He also helps readers understand the importance of Christian ethics in light of the deep spiritual and cultural roots of the black church in America. Through stories, theological reflection, and case studies meant to encourage small-group discussion, Oglesby builds a case that Christian ethics begins--in the rhythmic flux of the black religious experience--with a love of freedom, because no child of God can be fully Christian without being free (Galatians 5:1).
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”Professor Oglesby does not disappoint. Pressing Toward the
Mark: Christian Ethics for the Black Church Today provides ethical
guidelines for dealing with the thorny problem of sexuality in the
Black Church,Womanist Ethics, and the use of the Bible. Replete
with case studies, this text is ideal for church study groups,
theological schools, and departments of religion."
--Noel Leo Erskine, Emory University
“To articulate an ethic that is less a matter of logic and theory
than the byproduct of a life engaged in struggle, Dr. Oglesby
recounts some of the key moments in Black America’s pursuit of
justice, equality, and liberation. He claims a voice hewn from the
rocky crevices of a racist culture, but polished and refined to
reveal a durability, a beauty, and a resolve intended to inspire
and to educate."
--Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, Associate Conference Minister, St.
Louis Association, Missouri Mid-South Conference
"I had no idea I was raised on the principles of Womanist Theology
until I read E. Hammond Oglesby’s Pressing Toward the Mark. . . .
Indeed, the unique contribution of this book to ethics in the black
church in the twenty-first century is its reminder to us that our
moral traditions have Womanist roots."
--Edward P. Wimberly, Interdenominational Theological Center
"Representing the mature reflections of a distinguished teacher and
author in the field of Christian Ethics, Professor Oglesby’s volume
grounds Christian Ethics in the black church tradition in the
inseparability of love and justice. . . . [T]he four case studies
will be valuable resources that effectively invite and facilitate
further reflection, dialogue, and group discussion, both in the
black church and beyond."
--J. Clinton McCann Jr., Eden Theological Seminary
Product Details
- Title : Pressing Toward the Mark: Christian Ethics for the Black Church Today
- Author: Oglesby, E. Hammond
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2007
- ISBN: 9781498276115
E. Hammond Oglesby is the United Church Professor of Theology and History at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, and an ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. He is the author of nine previous books including O Lord, Move this Mountain: Racism and Christian Ethics (1998).