New Testament Theology: Identity and I-deology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781626767119)

How many times have we heard when doing evangelism in the Caribbean, these words echoing resistance to Christianity, "it's a white man thing... the religion of the oppressor?"

New Testament Theology (NTT) is a scholarly, theological and cultural book which faces this issue head-on as the Caribbean church continues to struggle with the question of identity, culture and the relevance of the church. The book traces the roots of a Caribbean Theology to the formulation of theological objections against slavery by enslaved Africans. The authors make the case that theology must be connected to the culture of a people; otherwise, theology becomes meaningless.

The book surveys what the authors believe to be the main theological constructs of all the NT corpora, and provides a unique NTT synthesis in the form of a commentary. Three important features of the book are:

1. Scriptures from the Jamaican New Testament
2. The works of Caribbean theologians and scholars
3. Attention to the "I n I" Rastafarian concept and its place in the New Testament.

It is designed primarily for tertiary level Bible students, and consciously resists the call of those who say that a New Testament Theology should confine itself to a descriptive agenda.

Dr. Delano Palmer and Dr. Samantha Mosha are members of the Society of Caribbean Professors of Religious Studies. Dr. Mosha is a graduate of the universities of Yale and the UWI. Dr. Palmer is a graduate of the universities of Cornerstone and South Africa. He served as Deputy President of the Jamaica Theological Seminary and is a lecturer at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology.