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Black Man's Religion: Can Christianity be Afrocentric?
Authors: Usry, Glenn & Keener, Craig S.
ISBN: 0-8308-1983-5
Publisher: Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1996
Type of cover: Soft Cover

Summary: Ever since Elijah Muhammed, many Americans have held the opinion that Christianity is the White Man's religion, and a tool to oppress people around the world. Try telling that to an Ethiopian, whose family has likely been Christian for centuries, long before most Europeans had heard the gospel.

Black Man's Religion sets about the task of reclaiming some of the African heritage of the global Church, and does a fine job of it. This is no washed-up, patronizingly condecending book, but one that boldly puts the color back in Jesus' skin, and dares you o do something about it.

This is not a militant book, but it may seem militant to some readers. It isn't new theology, but setting the historical record straight.

I recommend Black Man's Religion to people who think Jesus is a white man's tool. I recommend it to people who think Jesus is a white man, and I recommend it to those in between these extremes.

-Paul Grant