Black Suffering
Silent Pain, Hidden Hope
Published on 6. October 2020
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-5064-6438-1 (ISBN)
Description
Harris shows the practical impact of suffering upon church leaders as they seek to forge a path forward to address this troubling issue. Black Suffering is a call to consciousness, a work that begins a larger conversation for correcting the historical weight of suffering carried by Black people.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5064-6438-1 (9781506464381)
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10/2020
Fortress Press
€19.49
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Person
James Henry Harris is Distinguished Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology and a research scholar in religion and humanities at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University. He also serves as chair of the theology faculty and pastor of Second Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia. He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and recipient of the Henry Luce Fellowship in Theology. He is the author of numerous books, including Beyond the Tyranny of the Text and Black Suffering: Silent Pain, Hidden Hope (Fortress Press, 2020).