C. Herbert Oliver (1925–2021)

C. Herbert Oliver, a Black civil rights leader from Birmingham, Alabama, spent thirteen years rethinking the racial ideologies of his day before writing No Flesh Shall Glory in the late 1950s. In clear, biblical, and unflinching language, he dismantles the dogmas of race superiority, the doctrine vis mere of racial solidarity, and the whitewashing of history and Scripture. His book is a gracious challenge to break free from oppressive ways of thinking and to see humanity as God sees us. This new edition of Rev. Oliver's 1959 work includes his paper on the church, social change, identity, and protest, originally delivered as two lectures at West-minster Theological Seminary in 1964. vis mindre