Dangerous God, Sacred Work: Ned Cobb's Theology
This paper seeks to review the some of the religious thought of Ned Cobb, the subject of Theodore Rosengarten's underappreciated oral history All God's Dangers. The essay contends that Cobb, an African-American sharecropper from Alabama, is a deeply original practical theologian, some of w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Notre Dame
[2018]
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Religion & literature
Year: 2018, Volume: 50, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 91-112 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Shaw, Nate 1885-1973
/ Black theology
/ Marxism
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDG Free church NBC Doctrine of God NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
COBB, Ned
B Religious Thought B African American churches B Oral History B GOODNESS of God |
| Summary: | This paper seeks to review the some of the religious thought of Ned Cobb, the subject of Theodore Rosengarten's underappreciated oral history All God's Dangers. The essay contends that Cobb, an African-American sharecropper from Alabama, is a deeply original practical theologian, some of whose insights anticipate trends in late-twentieth-century black theology. Guided by insights taken from Cornel West's Prophesy Deliverance!, the essay seeks to outline two distinct strands in Cobb's thought. The first is a simple but effective theodicy that attempts to reconcile the putative goodness of God with the world's \"dangers\" by boldly attributing those evils to the godhead. The second strand is a fascinating, functional effort to synthesize mainstream African-American Christianity and a quasi-Marxist social theory. The article also aims to situate Cobb's spirituality within the religious landscape of the rural black church in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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