Download or read book The Negro's God written by Benjamin E. Mays and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ideas of God in Negro literature are developed along three principal lines: (1) Ideas of God that are used to support or give adherence to traditional, compensatory patterns; (2) Ideas, whether traditional or otherwise, that are developed and interpreted to support a growing consciousness of social and psychological adjustment needed; (3) Ideas of God that show a tendency or threat to abandon the idea of God as a 'useful instrument' in perfecting social change." From Chapter IX, Summation