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A Theological Account of Nat Turner

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137322968

ISBN: 978-1-349-45923-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 28, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Lampley, Karl W.

Pages: 1 –19

[What does the slave do when faced with a perpetual and inherently violent system of bondage and slavery? How does the slave speak to God in this humiliating and dehumanizing condition? What are the prayers and hopes of the slave before the true and living God? Should the slave acquiesce to the...
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Chapter 2A Portrait of Nat Turner

Lampley, Karl W.

Pages: 21 –38

[Theological reflection is representative of the social location and historical context of the theologian. As such, theology is not objective, universal language but rather contextual and particularistic speech about God, the world, and humanity. The self-identity and assumptions of the...
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Chapter 3The Theology of Nat Turner

Lampley, Karl W.

Pages: 39 –69

[In 1964, Joseph R. Washington, Jr. asserted that black Christianity was divorced from the longstanding Christian tradition with no proper theological foundation, absence of critical reflection, and disregard of the theology and mission of the universal church. 1 According to Washington, black...
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Chapter 4Prophetic Violence and the Old Testament

Lampley, Karl W.

Pages: 71 –90

[In the Old Testament, violence is often depicted as the expressed will of God. God’s violence is repeatedly and unmistakably associated with God’s salvation and deliverance. In the first creation account, the Spirit of God battles and subdues the chaotic darkness, formlessness, and void of the...
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Chapter 5The Gospel of Jesus Christ and Violence

Lampley, Karl W.

Pages: 91 –122

[That Nat Turner’s conception of Jesus as Savior and Christ underlay his revolutionary commitment to violence and liberation meant that he viewed Jesus and the gospel of Jesus as sympathetic and supportive of his violent rebellion. Turner’s revelation of Christ began with scripture and the...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Lampley, Karl W.

Pages: 123 –158

[Nat Turner’s slave insurrection emanated from his radical black theology and rebellious black religion. His social location as a religious, educated, and gifted yet poor, black, male slave, combined with his historical age in the intractable and inherently violent state of slavery in Virginia of...

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