How Do Celtic Catholic Spiritual Traditions and Black Lived Experiences Speak to One Another Through Shared Faith and Survival?

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by Kenneth Dantzler-Corbin

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How Do Celtic Catholic Spiritual Traditions and Black Lived Experiences Speak to One Another Through Shared Faith and Survival? explores an unexpected theological dialogue between two communities shaped by domination, displacement, and endurance. Drawing from Celtic Catholic spirituality, Black Liberation theology, womanist thought, Scripture, and historical memory, this book traces how faith takes root under pressure and how spiritual practices emerge from lived struggle rather than institutional security. Through stories of hidden Masses, whispered prayers, spiritual songs sung in sorrow and hope, ancestral remembrance, and sacred relationships to land and body, the book reveals a shared theology of survival. Both traditions learned to carry God in ordinary gestures when churches were closed, languages threatened, and dignity denied. Celtic saints and Black elders alike testify that divine presence appears most clearly among the marginalized. The work centers on embodied faith, which includes prayer shaped by breath, community sustained through care, lament offered as sacred protest, and hope practiced without illusion. It honors sacred memory as resistance, showing how storytelling, music, and ritual preserve identity when empire seeks erasure. Rather than romanticizing suffering, the book insists on honest grief while affirming courageous hope. Integrating voices from Celtic scholarship, Black theology, liberation theology, and pastoral practice, the author weaves academic rigor with compassionate reflection. The final chapters turn inward, revealing how this comparative journey reshaped the author’s ministry in chaplaincy, music, writing, and preaching. This book argues that transformation arises not through domination, but through the moral power of shared humanity. Celtic Catholic spirituality and Black lived experience meet as partners in calling the world toward justice, healing, and beloved community—where faith becomes resistance, survival becomes sacred, and God walks close to wounded ground.

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