"Marcus Garvey the theologian"

Everytime Heroes Day is celebrated we seem to be afraid to express the view that our first National Hero Marcus Garvey, was the paramount Liberation theologian who demonstrated that you did not have to use Marxist analysis to analyse social phenomena, because, the praxis of racial consciousness was very evident in the sermon he preached on Easter Sunday, entitled, "The resurrection of the negro". Theologically, Marcus Garvey applied contextual reflections to show that the black person has to see the person of God in his or her own eyes. He realised that the conscious reality of the oppressive economic system will create, inevitably, a mental consciousness. This is classic Anglican theology with regard to the doctrine of the Incarnation, where God became enfleshed in a true human person, Jesus Christ. His advanced contextual theology became very real when he appointed an Anglican priest as the first bishop of the African Orthodox Church, because he felt that McGuire would understand that psychologically you had to create a religious structure that could comprehend race consciousness and identity.

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