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However, as African Americans began to claim Christianity as their own, African American biblical hermeneutics arose out of the experiences of racism in the United States. The discourse has been dominated by two core paradigmatic events in the Bible: the Exodus from Egypt and the ministry of Jesus. Both have been used to articulate God's ...
African Americans who were scholars in the field of Biblical studies. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American biblical scholars . It includes American biblical scholars that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In 2017, Evans launched the Tony Evans Training Center, an online learning platform providing seminary-style courses to equip Christian leaders who cannot attend a seminary. Evans holds the honor of writing and publishing the first full-Bible commentary and study Bible by an African American.
Messages Musings and Ministries to Empower the African American Church, Lithonia, Georgia: Orman Press, 2000. Crawford, Evans E. The Hum: Call and Response in African American Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. Felder, Cain Hope. The African Heritage Study Bible, Nashville, Tenn. The James C. Winston Publishing Company, 1993
From 1998 to 2001, Felder served as chair of the implementation panel for the National Center for African American Heritage & Culture at Howard University. He was on Howard's faculty from 1981 to 2016, having come to Washington from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he taught as a member of the Department of Biblical Studies (1978–1981).
Modern American origins of contemporary black theology can be traced to July 31, 1966, when an ad hoc group of 51 concerned clergy, calling themselves the National Committee of Negro Churchmen, bought a full page ad in The New York Times to publish their "Black Power Statement", which proposed a more aggressive approach to combating racism using the Bible for inspiration. [5]