of oppressive and dehumanizing socio-economic, environmental, and political structures. In spite of the opinions of some black interpreters of Scripture who stress eschatology as opposed to creation or liberation, it is apparent that fundamental to any black biblical hermeneutic are the universal parenthood of God and the concomitant universal kinship of humankind. Consequently, blacks have been able to: (1) allow the Bible to speak both constructively and critically to each new situation; (2) strive
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