For My People Religion_ Literature & the Arts is professor of theology at

is professor of theology at Boston College

"--from the Introduction by Henri Nouwen

and consequently demands a different mode of discipleship

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he has served as a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission

For My People Religion_ Literature & the Arts is professor of theology at"Spares neither kith nor kin, but addresses itself to the whole range of factors in North American religion which make for the traditional black church white church dichotomy, and the spiritual and social consequences that attend it. For My People is a strong commentary on both the role and the vitality of black theology, as well as on the pervasiveness of the problems that sustain the need for it." C. Eric Lincoln. A classic of black theology which