Noel Leo Erskine
Biographic Data
| ID | 86861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noel Leo Erskine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noel Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Erskine |
| SIGNATURE | ERSKINE N L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8794-8640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
George Liele: Liberated slave and African American Baptist Missionary to Jamaica
Liele introduced Baptist witness to Jamaica and served as pastor and educator of churches in Kingston and Spanish town cities there. Further, Liele was responsible for the conversion and baptism of another African American, Moses Baker, who migrated to Jamaica in 1783 and was a leader in establishing Baptist churches in western parishes in Jamaica. Beyond his work in Jamaica, Liele’s ministry reached as far afield as Nova Scotia, Canada, and Sier…
Surviving slavery in the British Caribbean
The Memory of Africa
Africa represented a controlling metaphor for enslaved Africans. This chapter looks at creation stories, stories of redemption, time, and freedom. In Yoruba land, the ancestors said that in the beginning was Olodumare, the supreme deity, who lived in the heavens with other divinities. Among them were Orisanala, the deputy in charge of ordering the created world; Orunmila, the deputy in charge of knowledge, and Esu in charge of rituals. The ancest…
The Plantation Church
Faced with the inhumanity of New World plantations, what was the response of the plantation church, both the Colonial and African expressions of church? Some colonial Christians were uneasy with slavery and were instrumental in giving reality to anti-slavery societies. However, most colonial churches, excepting the Quakers, did not challenge slavery as a system. A majority of planters and masters saw slavery as a necessary evil that was a politic…
Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery
This book argues that the new reality confronting enslaved Africans in the Americas was the plantation. It was religion, carried by enslaved persons from their homes in Africa, that engendered survival in their new environment—plantations in the Americas. Africans “stolen from the home land” and brought across the Atlantic to plantations in the Americas carried their religion with them as the basis of their resistance and hope. The plantation chu…
Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment
This article argues that Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment represents a breakthrough of grace as it re-enacts, for Jamaica as a nation, the divine miracle and humility of the incarnation: God speaking to Jamaicans in their own language, Patwa, just as Jesus Christ chose to be with a peasant family, Joseph and Mary. Jamaicans have always prayed and worshipped in Patwa, intuitively believing that God understands Patwa; yet, the translation of the New Test…
Martin Luther King, Jr: History Maker
The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology
This volume discusses normative theological categories from a black perspective and argues that there is no major Christian doctrine on which black theology has not commented. Part One explores introductory questions such as: what have been the historical and social factors fostering a black theology, and what are some of the internal factors key to its growth? Part Two examines major doctrines which have been important for black theology in term…
Black Theology and Pedagogy
This project proposes to look at the emergence of Black theology as a discipline within the academy and how Black theology may serve as a resource for excellence in teaching
From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology
The Roots of Rebellion and Rasta Theology in Jamaica
This essay is taken from the text of a public lecture that was given by the author at The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education on April 13, 2005. It formed part of an annual "Black Theology Consultation" at Queen's, at which Noel Erskine was the principal speaker that year. This piece builds upon Erskine's groundbreaking research detailed in his seminal Decolonizing Theology, in which he outlined a Jamaican/Caribbean perspectiv…
From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology
This history of the theology and rituals of Rastafarianism features the reggae rhythms of Bob Marley and the teachings and philosophy of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist who motivated many of his fellow Jamaicans to embrace their African ancestral roots. Marley is the best known and most articulate exponent of the themes of race consciousness that provide the core of Rasta hermeneutics. Noel Leo Erskine - a trained theologian who was raised i…
Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy (review)
Reviewed by: Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy Noel Leo Erskine Gifford, Paul . 2004. Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. xiv + 216 p. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Who cares about Africa? This seems to be the critical question Paul Gifford broaches in Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing Ec…
Pastoral Care in a Market Economy: A Caribbean Perspective . S. St. John Redwood
God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica . Shirley C. Gordon
Contemporary Theology
Journal Article CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY Get access Called to Freedom: Liberation Theology and the Future of Christian Doctrine By Daniel L. MigliorePhiladelphia: Westminster, 1980. 130 pages, notes. $5.95. ISBN 0-664-24289-8. Noel Leo Erskine Noel Leo Erskine Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 531–532, http…
Black Theology: Retrospect and Prospect
“Black people have read the Bible in a way which informed them that God's freedom challenged all forms of bondage in the world ... If black power can be defined as the search for black humanity and freedom, then black power would be rooted in divine power. As divine power is related to black power, an encounter between the divine content and the contemporary context takes place.”
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Black Theology: Retrospect and Prospect
“Black people have read the Bible in a way which informed them that God's freedom challenged all forms of bondage in the world ... If black power can be defined as the search for black humanity and freedom, then black power would be rooted in divine power. As divine power is related to black power, an encounter between the divine content and the contemporary context takes place.”
Contemporary Theology
Journal Article CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY Get access Called to Freedom: Liberation Theology and the Future of Christian Doctrine By Daniel L. MigliorePhiladelphia: Westminster, 1980. 130 pages, notes. $5.95. ISBN 0-664-24289-8. Noel Leo Erskine Noel Leo Erskine Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 531–532, http…
God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica . Shirley C. Gordon
Pastoral Care in a Market Economy: A Caribbean Perspective . S. St. John Redwood
From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology
This history of the theology and rituals of Rastafarianism features the reggae rhythms of Bob Marley and the teachings and philosophy of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist who motivated many of his fellow Jamaicans to embrace their African ancestral roots. Marley is the best known and most articulate exponent of the themes of race consciousness that provide the core of Rasta hermeneutics. Noel Leo Erskine - a trained theologian who was raised i…
Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy (review)
Reviewed by: Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy Noel Leo Erskine Gifford, Paul . 2004. Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. xiv + 216 p. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Who cares about Africa? This seems to be the critical question Paul Gifford broaches in Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing Ec…
The Roots of Rebellion and Rasta Theology in Jamaica
This essay is taken from the text of a public lecture that was given by the author at The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education on April 13, 2005. It formed part of an annual "Black Theology Consultation" at Queen's, at which Noel Erskine was the principal speaker that year. This piece builds upon Erskine's groundbreaking research detailed in his seminal Decolonizing Theology, in which he outlined a Jamaican/Caribbean perspectiv…
Black Theology and Pedagogy
This project proposes to look at the emergence of Black theology as a discipline within the academy and how Black theology may serve as a resource for excellence in teaching
From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology
Martin Luther King, Jr: History Maker
The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology
This volume discusses normative theological categories from a black perspective and argues that there is no major Christian doctrine on which black theology has not commented. Part One explores introductory questions such as: what have been the historical and social factors fostering a black theology, and what are some of the internal factors key to its growth? Part Two examines major doctrines which have been important for black theology in term…
Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment
This article argues that Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment represents a breakthrough of grace as it re-enacts, for Jamaica as a nation, the divine miracle and humility of the incarnation: God speaking to Jamaicans in their own language, Patwa, just as Jesus Christ chose to be with a peasant family, Joseph and Mary. Jamaicans have always prayed and worshipped in Patwa, intuitively believing that God understands Patwa; yet, the translation of the New Test…
The Memory of Africa
Africa represented a controlling metaphor for enslaved Africans. This chapter looks at creation stories, stories of redemption, time, and freedom. In Yoruba land, the ancestors said that in the beginning was Olodumare, the supreme deity, who lived in the heavens with other divinities. Among them were Orisanala, the deputy in charge of ordering the created world; Orunmila, the deputy in charge of knowledge, and Esu in charge of rituals. The ancest…
The Plantation Church
Faced with the inhumanity of New World plantations, what was the response of the plantation church, both the Colonial and African expressions of church? Some colonial Christians were uneasy with slavery and were instrumental in giving reality to anti-slavery societies. However, most colonial churches, excepting the Quakers, did not challenge slavery as a system. A majority of planters and masters saw slavery as a necessary evil that was a politic…
Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery
This book argues that the new reality confronting enslaved Africans in the Americas was the plantation. It was religion, carried by enslaved persons from their homes in Africa, that engendered survival in their new environment—plantations in the Americas. Africans “stolen from the home land” and brought across the Atlantic to plantations in the Americas carried their religion with them as the basis of their resistance and hope. The plantation chu…
Surviving slavery in the British Caribbean
George Liele: Liberated slave and African American Baptist Missionary to Jamaica
Liele introduced Baptist witness to Jamaica and served as pastor and educator of churches in Kingston and Spanish town cities there. Further, Liele was responsible for the conversion and baptism of another African American, Moses Baker, who migrated to Jamaica in 1783 and was a leader in establishing Baptist churches in western parishes in Jamaica. Beyond his work in Jamaica, Liele’s ministry reached as far afield as Nova Scotia, Canada, and Sier…
Philosophy (13 works) · Theology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works)