Being Human

Dwight Hopkins whose important work in Black Theology has mediated class theological concerns through the prism of African American culture here offers a fresh take on theological anthropology. Rather than defined the human as one eternal or inviolable essence however Hopkins looks to the multiple and conflicting notions of the human in contemporary thought and particularly three key variables: culture self and race. Hopkins critical reframing of these concepts firmly locates human endeavor development transcendence and liberation in the particular messiness of struggle and strife.