JAWANZA ERIC CLARK is Assistant Professor of Global Christianity at Manhattan College, USA.

• Series Editors Preface Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 'I once was lost, but now I'm found': The Origins of Black Christian Anti-African Sentiment The Only Way to Salvation: A Christological Critique Overcoming Religious and Cultural Amnesia: Who are the Ancestors? Indigenous Black Theology: Toward a Theology of the Ancestors The Dead are not Dead: The Future of Black Theology and Black Church Theologies Conclusion Notes Index

"Jawanza Eric Clark's Akan-based criticism of Christian dogmatics will edify those who read him. He makes his case for an African-centered hermeneutics skillfully, knowledgeably, and in depth." - Josiah Young, professor of Systematic Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary "At long last, going beyond the lip-service of many Black theologians who have counted African Religion as a 'source' for the development of their discipline without drawing upon that heritage in specific ways, Jawanza Eric Clark has genuinely and creatively drawn upon the central African religious notion of 'ancestors' in the formulation of Black theological anthropology. This book shows how Black theologians can re-connect with their ancestral roots in ways that make important new developments possible in their message, invigorating a discipline bogged down and tired of repeating the categories formulated in those contexts from which liberation is sought." - Emmanuel Y. Lartey, professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling, Candler School of Theology

JAWANZA ERIC CLARK is Assistant Professor of Global Christianity at Manhattan College, USA.

• Series Editors Preface Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 'I once was lost, but now I'm found': The Origins of Black Christian Anti-African Sentiment The Only Way to Salvation: A Christological Critique Overcoming Religious and Cultural Amnesia: Who are the Ancestors? Indigenous Black Theology: Toward a Theology of the Ancestors The Dead are not Dead: The Future of Black Theology and Black Church Theologies Conclusion Notes Index

"Jawanza Eric Clark's Akan-based criticism of Christian dogmatics will edify those who read him. He makes his case for an African-centered hermeneutics skillfully, knowledgeably, and in depth." - Josiah Young, professor of Systematic Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary "At long last, going beyond the lip-service of many Black theologians who have counted African Religion as a 'source' for the development of their discipline without drawing upon that heritage in specific ways, Jawanza Eric Clark has genuinely and creatively drawn upon the central African religious notion of 'ancestors' in the formulation of Black theological anthropology. This book shows how Black theologians can re-connect with their ancestral roots in ways that make important new developments possible in their message, invigorating a discipline bogged down and tired of repeating the categories formulated in those contexts from which liberation is sought." - Emmanuel Y. Lartey, professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling, Candler School of Theology

JAWANZA ERIC CLARK is Assistant Professor of Global Christianity at Manhattan College, USA.

• Series Editors Preface Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 'I once was lost, but now I'm found': The Origins of Black Christian Anti-African Sentiment The Only Way to Salvation: A Christological Critique Overcoming Religious and Cultural Amnesia: Who are the Ancestors? Indigenous Black Theology: Toward a Theology of the Ancestors The Dead are not Dead: The Future of Black Theology and Black Church Theologies Conclusion Notes Index

"Jawanza Eric Clark's Akan-based criticism of Christian dogmatics will edify those who read him. He makes his case for an African-centered hermeneutics skillfully, knowledgeably, and in depth." - Josiah Young, professor of Systematic Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary "At long last, going beyond the lip-service of many Black theologians who have counted African Religion as a 'source' for the development of their discipline without drawing upon that heritage in specific ways, Jawanza Eric Clark has genuinely and creatively drawn upon the central African religious notion of 'ancestors' in the formulation of Black theological anthropology. This book shows how Black theologians can re-connect with their ancestral roots in ways that make important new developments possible in their message, invigorating a discipline bogged down and tired of repeating the categories formulated in those contexts from which liberation is sought." - Emmanuel Y. Lartey, professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling, Candler School of Theology