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The God of biblical revelation is the same God whose liberating presence is seen in the contemporary Black liberation struggle today—a presence that will ultimately defeat the historical power of white supremacy.
In Forever in Thy Path Harry H. Singleton shows how the guarantee of God’s liberating presence is seen not only in the deliverance of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt, but in God’s incarnation, in Jesus, one of an oppressed and despised people. This incarnation forges an eternal solidarity that transforms the tragedy of Jesus’ death into a resurrected life that overcomes the power of death itself.
Throughout, Singleton employs the metaphor of “path” to denote the trek of Black people on their liberating journey from the holds of slave ships, to their ongoing struggle for true freedom and equality. That path has several dimensions, which form the structure of this work: the path of freedom, conversion, obedience, righteousness, justice, liberation, and eternity, all indispensable in the quest for human liberation.
Harry H. Singleton III teaches in the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina Columbia. He earned an MDiv degree from the Interdenominational Theology Center, Atlanta, and his doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. His previous books are Black Theology and Ideology, White Religion and Black Humanity, and Divine Revelation and Human Liberation.
