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This work is concerned with the way Black Christian formation, because of the acceptance of universal, absolute, and exclusive Christian doctrines, seems to justify and even encourage anti-African sentiment.

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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

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"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

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

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