Black fundamentalists aligned closely with their white counterparts on the theological particulars of “the fundamentals.” Yet they often applied their conservative theology in more progressive, racially contextualized ways.

Concerns about modernists posing a threat to their conservative Christian faith emerged among Black Christians as well as white, even as the oppressive hand of Jim Crow excluded African Americans from the most prominent white-controlled fundamentalist institutions. Drawing on Hoare’s experience of the natural world, and of the elements that shape our contemporary lives, Hoare helps us better understand the interplay between art and our world in this fascinating book.īlack Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Eraīlack Fundamentalists challenges the idea that fundamentalism was an exclusively white phenomenon. Albert and the Whale explores the work of this remarkable man through a personal lens. But his art captured more than the physical world, he also captured states of mind. He painted signs and wonders comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern images. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. Dürer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. Thrown into crisis, in the shape of the whale, he saw his final ambition. The wing of a bird or the wing of an angel in Dürer's art, they were part of a connected world. In 1520, Albrecht Dürer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale.

Black Fundamentalists by Daniel R. Bare