Begrimed and Black: Christian Traditions on Blacks and BlacknessFortress Press - 198 sider |
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Shades of Blackness in Greek and Roman Cultures Before Christ | 23 |
Africa and the Christian Tradition | 45 |
Blackness as Evil and Sex in Early Christian Thought | 73 |
Blackness and Sanctity | 91 |
Christendom and Black Slavery | 115 |
Blackness in Europe and America | 133 |
Hams Children in America Blacks on Blackness | 155 |
Epilogue | 181 |
Index | 191 |
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Begrimed and Black: Christian Traditions on Blacks and Blackness Robert Earl Hood Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1994 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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Populære avsnitt
Side 50 - You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
Side 177 - Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die.
Side 136 - I am black, as if bereav'd of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And pointing to the east, began to say: "Look on the rising sun: there God does live, And gives his light, and gives his heat away...
Side 77 - You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Side 6 - Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten.
Side 18 - Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
Side 126 - We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their desires for the furtherance of so noble a work, which may, by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the glory of His Divine Majesty, in propagating of the Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels and savages living in those parts to human civility and to a settled and quiet government...
Side 175 - I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made .distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.