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Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise - Paperback

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by Jamall A. Calloway (Author)

A number of Black writers have drawn inspiration from the biblical tale of the expulsion from paradise. In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and the aftermath of the Fall in works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker. In reflecting on Eden, he contends, these writers rethought what paradise could mean in the face of the catastrophes of the Black experience.

By placing key novels in conversation with major religious thinkers, Calloway shows how Black writers adopted Edenic motifs to rebut orthodox interpretations of Genesis, with striking theological implications. He argues that Baldwin's Giovanni's Room counters St. Paul's proclamations on the mortification of the flesh, reads Morrison's Paradise against St. Augustine's City of God as a challenge to the exclusions of the Garden of Eden, investigates Wright's use of S ren Kierkegaard's interpretation of Adam in The Outsider, and demonstrates how Walker's The Color Purple and Catholic theologian Ivone Gebara offer a radical reconceptualization of the serpent in Genesis. The book concludes with a reflection on Lucille Clifton's poetry. Revealing the richness of Black writers' engagement with theology, Imagining Eden is a profoundly original consideration of literature and liberation, God and humanity.

Author Biography

Jamall A. Calloway is an assistant professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and an honorary research lecturer in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus.

Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: November 25, 2025

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