Original Research - Special Collection: Women Theologies

The Bride of Christ with a hellish existence on earth: Insights from Eboni Turman, the black church and black liberation theology

Hlulani M. Mdingi
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 79, No 1 | a7595 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v79i1.7595 | © 2023 Hlulani M. Mdingi | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 01 April 2022 | Published: 09 February 2023

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Hlulani M. Mdingi, Department of Systematic and Historical Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

This research is based on the reading of Eboni Turman’s work that focuses on body politics, especially through a theological paradigm. The study confirms that the body is a theological problem, and the extent of the problem stretches to the annals of Christian theology to the present, especially in light of racism, sexism and capitalism. The study will engage black womanist eschatology to draw from the rich well of seeing how the experience of black women gives new meaning to understanding the presence and coming of God through wrestling and struggle. The study will use the black church, especially in the United States of America (USA), to dialogue with. The researcher has previously done work on the black church in the USA and South Africa, as well as work on the contribution of African womanist theologians. Thus, the study uses the USA purely because of Eboni Turman’s discussion on the body as a theological problem.

Contribution: The study seeks to invite men and the black church to remember the black sacred dance from old, which has remained with black women as they continue to dance, thus critiquing those who are out of rhythm and need it now more than ever.


Keywords

dance; black womanist; body; eschatology; black church.

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