Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-467) and index.

Prologue: the argument at a glance -- Prelude on Christology and rac e: Irenaeus as anti-gnostic intellectual -- Part I. Dramatizing Race: A Theological Account of Modernity: -- 1. The drama of race: toward a th eological account of modernity -- 2. The great drama of religion: moder nity, the Jews, and the theopolitics of race -- Part II. Engaging Race: The Field of African American Religious Studies: -- 3. Historicizing r ace: Albert J. Raboteau, religious history, and the ambiguities of blac kness -- 4. Theologizing race: James H. Cone, liberation and the theolo gical meaning of blackness -- 5. Signifying race: Charles H. Long and t he opacity of blackness -- Interlude on Christology and race: Gregory o f Nyssa as abolitionist intellectual -- Part III. Redirecting Race: Out lines of a Theological Program: -- 6. The birth of Christ: a theologica l reading of Briton Hammon's 1760 Narrative -- 7. The death of Christ: a theological reading of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative -- 8. The spirit of Christ: a theological reading of the writings of Jarena Lee - - Postlude on Christology and race: Maximus the Confessor as anticoloni alist intellectual -- Epilogue: the discourse of theology in the twenty -first century.

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