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Beginning the task of constructing a theology of the ancestors requires we examine the effect such theologizing will have on Black theology and Black church theologies into the future. If indeed the dead are not dead, if the anthropology, the epistemology, and the theology that much of modernity dismissed, subjugated, and left for dead, are alive, what hope does this offer as black people in America continue to do theology in the future? What are the implications of this new, yet ancient, theological category for the future of both Black theology and contemporary Black churches? How do the ancestors impact and inform sacramental theology and black church worship?
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Clark, J.E. (2012). The Dead Are Not Dead: The Future of Black Theology and Black Church Theologies. In: Indigenous Black Theology. Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002839_6
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