“A Womanist Interpretation of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil – Sacred Rhetoric in African-American Texts”
1991
Katie G. Cannon maintains that the African American sermon, “the earliest form of spoken religious art within the black church community,” has been the most vital factor in explaining how such moral evils as chattel slavery, economic impoverishment, wars, and atrocities can occur in a world created by a holy God. Evil is neither sidestepped nor explained away as the absence of good. Instead, evil is exposed as an existential element in the completion of human history …”
Poster
Vanderbilt University Archives