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African American Christian Ethics ReviewI am a religion major who just completed a Christian ethnics course using the book called African American Christian Ethics, by Samuel K. Roberts. The last assignment given by the professor was to write a review on this book. Here goes!
The book starts out strong, clear, and concise, as Roberts begins by stating his purpose of looking for a Christian ethic within the particularity of the African American experience. In the first part of the book he labors, successfully, to lay a foundation that encompasses the history of Africans being brought into America as slaves. He does an excellent job of relating the reason and manner in which Christianity was eventually offered to these slaves, and he identifies the particular way in which Africans were able to identify with the person of Jesus, and make Christianity their own particular religion. Roberts supports his discourse by introducing and tying in the theology of influential black theologians and thinkers, he also supports his work through the use of old Negro Spirituals, and selective Scripture interpretations.
The second part of the book is also well written, continuing basically in the same manner as the first part. Roberts continues to pull in the black theological voices of James Cone, Albert Cleage Jr., Major R. Jones, Gayraud S. Wilmore, and others. He continues to use the Negro Spirituals in this section, and he does an excellent job of discussing in great detail the various African American Christian denominations and how they came into being. It is the last part of the book that falls short, in my opinion. Throughout the first two sections, Roberts laid a foundation that inspired an appreciation within the reader toward the importance of African Americans developing a Christian ethic true to their experience, belief, and identity of God. Yet, in the last part of the book, where one would expect Roberts to pull everything together and clearly present a definitive Christian ethnic that is particular to the African American experience, the book becomes somewhat disappointing. In this section, Roberts abandons the tools that worked so well for him in the previous two sections, namely the black theological voices and the Negro Spirituals. Instead of affirming a specific Christian ethic for African Americans, Roberts chooses to address various issues. As I read this portion of the book I felt that Roberts was falling into the trap many black leaders have fallen into, that being discussing the problems without providing any definitive solution. The course of action he supplied was somewhat liberal, and most definitely inconclusive. I was left still searching for that particular Christian ethic Roberts had convinced me that the African American people needed.
The book is good, worthwhile to any who would like to learn of the particularity of the African American experience. Roberts' research into the history of African Americans, and even the White race as far as how it pertains to slavery is without fault in my opinion. However, if you truly desire to arrive, by the end of the book, at a place of conviction concerning the particular ethic needed for African Americans, I am afraid you will be as disappointed as I was.
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