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Urban Apologetics: Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

African-Americans have long confronted the challenge of dignity destruction caused by white supremacy. While many have found meaning and restoration of dignity in the black church, others have found it in ethnocentric socioreligious groups and philosophies. These ideologies have grown and developed deep traction in the black community and beyond. Previously found primarily in urban communities...

carried along these fallacies without any opposition, and the picture of the early church fathers as white men continues to exist in much of global academia.4 Scholar Thomas Oden indicates that this was intentional: If the writings of Philo, Synesius, Victor of Vita and Shenute of Atripe had all been written in France, they would be called European. But they were not. They were written in Africa. So why shouldn’t they be called African? There is a prejudice at work here: suspect anything of intellectual
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