Theology is the branch of religious studies that seeks to understand God through rational analysis and argument.
Theology Quotes in The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Chapter 7
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Some one recently inquired as to why the religious schools do not teach the people how to tolerate differences of opinion and to cooperate for the common good. This, however, is the thing which these institutions have refused to do. Religious schools have been established, but they are considered necessary to supply workers for denominational outposts and to keep alive the sectarian bias by which the Baptists hope to outstrip the Methodists or the latter the former. No teacher in one of these schools has advanced a single thought which has become a working principle in Christendom, and not one of these centres is worthy of the name of a school of theology.
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Chapter 1: The Seat of the Trouble
Meanwhile, theology, business, and journalism schools teach the white establishment’s ideology and tools. This makes Black ministers,...
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Chapter 6: The Educated Negro Leaves the Masses
...they have become redundant and can’t actually coordinate. They’ve also become tangled up in white theologians’ absurd and dangerous debates, which serve to justify atrocities like slavery and segregation. By imitating...
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Chapter 7: Dissension and Weakness
...sectarian religious schools focus on their own survival and power, so they recycle “worn-out” white theological teachings. For instance, Woodson recalls that Black preachers educated in these schools gave sermons praising...
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Chapter 14: The New Problem
...thinking and public service, rather than wealth. In particular, the social sciences, the humanities, and theology need to be reformed, as their curricula are still based on the oppressive ideas that...
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