Harry H. Singleton is concerned in this work with the disparate ways blacks and whites have experienced American history and subsequently the way they have fashioned God''s communication to humans, formerly referred to as revelation. This book makes the case that while white Christian leaders have rooted God''s revelation either in an inherently inferior black humanity or a Christian faith void of black suffering, black theologians have rooted that same revelation in the plight of oppressed peoples in general and black people in particular, i.e., that God''s essence is found in the struggle for human liberation. With clarity and passion, Professor Singleton draws on the treatments of revelation of the most celebrated white theologians to demonstrate that the Christian theological enterprise has by intent and effect linked God''s revelation with black inferiority. Black theologians, on the other hand, have countered seeking a more liberating view of black humanity by making the case tha
