Heart and HeadNew Edition

Faith, hope, and love embody the black theology of liberation, a movement created by a group of African-American pastors in the late 1960s who felt that Christ's gospel held a special message of liberation for African Americans. Dwight N. Hopkins uses black theology or a spirituality of liberation to persuade African Americans and all Americans that the way to heal America's racial divide is by using both compassion and intellect. In his words, "To calm the raging waters of a me-first way of life and growing racial intolerance, we need the values of both the heart and the head."

Hopkins asserts that in this post-Civil Rights, post-affirmative action era, all people, regardless of race or ethnicity, must join together in creating a healthy community and forging a new common wealth. Offering a detailed perspective on a new racial, gender, and economic democracy in the United States for the 21st century, Hopkins illustrates that black theology can be the key to personal and global liberation.