In this powerful collection by one of today's leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Faith situates the current position of African Americans, tracing the geneology of the "Afro-American Rebellion" from Martin Luther King to the rise of black revolutionary leftists. In Cornel West's hands issues of race and freedom are inextricably tied to questions of philosophy and, above all, to a belief in the power of the human spirit.
exercise our Christian faith and belief in Jesus in other areas, these sayings are made irrelevant by both inaccuracy in transmission (“What did the man actually say anyway, since we have some irreconcilable choices before us?
Although it was a struggle to keep the show on the road at times, you never complained, and you made it all fun, ... our choices implied with grace and deep courage and knows more than anyone what keeping faith in fundraising means too.
in the quest to keep faith in faith-based organizations. The telos is not to be sustained by individuals but rather by a different community with a different set of practices. hauerwas's ecclesiological convictions appear to have ...
She was a tough and driven woman who, already at age sixteen, had served on the front in the Civil War. ... Although she stopped short of actively joining the human rights movement of the sixties, she “did 152 KEEPING FAITH with the ...
These life stories, not classical philosophical theories, form the basis of feminist theologizing that Catholic pastoral theology in Africa needs in order to keep faith in practice at the grassroots level. Oduyoye argues: The stories we ...
They doomed themselves to fail , Hannah , when they lost sight of their true mission : to keep faith with the Lord at all times . ” My father's eyes shone with a conviction that welled up from deep in his soul .
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
A collection of essays by a professor of Afro-American Studies and Religion at Harvard examines the role of the black intellectual, legal theory, the future of liberal thought, while offering advice to the modern generation of African ...
Keeping Faith
Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family's experience of the Marine Corps: from being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and ...