About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Ezra Abbot, Cornel West, John Meyendorff, Leila Ahmed, Peter J. Gomes, John G. Palfrey, Raimon Panikkar, Musimbi Kanyoro, Thomas Jay Oord, Jon D. Levenson, Mark Hanson, Anne C. Klein, Francis Xavier Clooney, Frank Moore Cross, Heiko Oberman, Robert Michael Franklin, Jr., Christopher Dawson, Colin Slee, Harvey Cox, Alfred Bloom, Krister Stendahl, David Carrasco, Ronald Frank Thiemann, Eberhard Bethge, Lowell Livezey, Jacob K. Olupona, Michael Jackson, Sarah Coakley, James Luther Adams, Roger H. Martin, G. Ernest Wright, George Marsden, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Paul D. Hanson, Charles Gilchrist Adams, Joseph Fletcher, Thomas B. Coburn, David D. Hall, Charles Carroll Everett, Helmut Koester, Andrews Norton, Carol Patrice Christ, David Gordon Lyon, Henry Ware, Jr., Karen Leigh King, Charles Richard Stith, Francis Schussler Fiorenza, George Huntston Williams, George Foot Moore, George R. Noyes, Elinor Gadon, David Tappan, James Hardy Ropes. Excerpt: Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the Department of Religion. West is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." West draws intellectual contributions from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, pragmatism and transcendentalism. West was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and grew up in Sacramento, California, where his father wa...
