Deliver Us from Evil: Resisting Racial and Gender Oppression

by James Newton Poling

Overview

Deliver Us From Evil explores the history of resistance to racial and gender oppression-from a slave woman in nineteenth-century America to a woman patient of Sigmund Freud-and traces the failed promises of the American Revolution in the oppression of subordinate groups. Poling reviews resistance by analyzing communities that understand evil as the abuse of power. Also treated are definitions of evil and debates between womanist and feminist theologians. Jesus emerges as a model for marginalized and oppressed people, as Poling calls for prophetic acts of solidarity to create new possibilities for healing and justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800629045
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	05/01/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.06(d)

About the Author

James Newton Poling is recently retired as Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, and author of numerous books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Deliver Us from Evil

Resistance to Evil

The Nature of Evil

Debate and Betrayal

An Exercise in Practical Theology

My Accountability

Summary of Chapters

PART ONE: RESISTING RACIAL AND GENDER OPPRESSION

Race, Gender, and White Supremacy: The Case of Harriet Jacobs

Women and Male Dominance: The Case of Freud and Dora

The Revolution Betrayed: How Freedom Was Suppressed

Emancipation for Whom? How Racism and Sexism Survived Reconstruction

Contemporary Resistance and Betrayal

PART TWO: RESISTING EVIL IN THE NAME OF JESUS

Understanding Resistance to Evil

Defining Evil

Re-imagining Jesus' Resistance to Evil

Jesus as Religious Resister

Postscript: Practicing Goodness

Notes

Bibliography

Index