Prophetic Peril by Thomas M. Fuerst PAPERBACK 9781496855435

Prophetic PerilThe Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives\nAuthor(s): Thomas M. Fuerst\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496855435, 978-1496855435\nSynopsis\nProphecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a person willing to reimagine their own situation. In the biblical and African American traditions, this person receives a \""call\"" to prophetic ministry that upends their reality and compels them to change the way things are. Prophetic Peril: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives invites readers into the imaginative, subversive, and ethically complicated stories of four nineteenth-century Black figures who received the call to challenge the what is and live into the what could be in the midst of a hard-hearted world.