A review by gjones19
The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness by Raphael G. Warnock

5.0

I really enjoyed this book. Dr. Warnock traces the history of the Black Church by identifying four stages (liberating faith, liberating church, liberating movement, and liberating theology) and calls for a fifth stage of critical self reflection. His interpretation is guided by the juxtaposition of piety and protest, (the two competing values of the Black Church that form the “divided mind”) and he does a great job outlining the context of the Black Church and Black Theology.