This book is an attempt to analyze the historic roles of the black church and
the black preacher in light of liberation theology of radical social involvement.
The first chapter, "The Black Church and the Black Preacher: African Roots,
underscores the various ways in which African religious traditions shaped and
informed the style and ethos of the black church, and the authority and artistic
creativity of the black preacher. Only fleeting attention has been given the black
preacher in this regard. Some attention is devoted in this chapter to how the
image of Africa, as reflected in the early...