Drawing on a wide array of sources to document cultural influences from Africa, the author vividly describes the emergence of an independent church tradition among African Americans. Whelchel demonstrates the struggles of Africans in the United States to build and maintain their own churches before showing how those churches and their ministers were often at the center of seminal events in the history of America. Whelchel provides an engaging and provocative narrative, and with detailed documentation and end notes for each chapter along with critical analyses which will be of benefit to ministers, scholars, teachers, students and the general reading public.
Author : C. Eric Lincoln,Lawrence H. Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the s. Drawing on interviews with more than 1, black clergy in both urban and rural settings, combined with a comprehensive historical overview of seven mainline black denominations, C.
Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya present an analysis of the Black Church as it relates to the history of African Americans and to contemporary black culture. Among other topics, Lincoln and Mamiya discuss the attitude of the clergy toward women pastors, the reaction of the Church to the civil rights movement, the attempts of the Church to involve young people, the impact of the black consciousness movement and Black Liberation Theology and clergy, and trends that will define the Black Church well into the next century.
This study is complete with a comprehensive bibliography of literature on the black experience in religion. Funding for the ten-year survey was made possible by the Lilly Endowment and the Ford Foundation. Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
A necessary and moving work. Glaude, Jr. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing.
At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. A History of the African American Church is an interdenominational and international study of the historic evolution of African American church developments from slavery to the present.
When our identity, power and authority have been restored, then He wants to prepare us for the work ahead. The reason why God brings us into the wilderness is to prepare each believer to be able to release their potential.
Before we are able to be used by God mightily, He wants to change our character and filter out all the unnecessary things that we have learned in this world. It is a time where man has to learn how to be dependent upon God. This dependence starts in the wilderness where there is absolutely nothing. God wants all of us to put our total trust upon Him and that He will provide all the necessities that we need. God wants His people to experience the supernatural provision that He offers.
This is especially true for people who desire to be future leaders in the Kingdom. This does not only refer to people in leadership but also people who live their life in the marketplace. People need to know and understand how God provides in their life and how He wants to use them in their field. In order for people to understand how God works, they need to be transformed through a season of testing.
This season of testing is where God actually wants to build up our character. Our character needs to be changed to that of God. Without a character transformation, we will always reflect what we learn in the world. We need to get rid of everything that was attached to our life that doesnt reflect the characteristics of God. This is done in the wilderness because in the wilderness, since there is nothing, we cant help but rely on God. As we rely on God more, then the things that have been attached to our life will start to fall off.
Everything that was attached has to come off. When everything comes off, then God will put His Words and traits upon our life. That is why character is so important. It reflects Gods traits. People never look at character as an important aspect in life. Character is often ignored or overlooked. However, to God, it is an important quality. When we are ultimately changed by God, then as we come out of our wilderness experience, we will come out with supernatural power to establish His Kingdom here on earth.
Since we learn of His supernatural provision, we will also learn of His supernatural power. The whole process of the wilderness experience is receiving the anointing of God upon our life.
With the anointing of God, we will be able to accomplish much. If nineteenth and twentieth century theologians and historians consider the African way of perceiving as the source for the particular ways in which Africans in America have experienced Christianity since enslavement,1 Jawanza Eric Clark, writing in his recently published Indigenous Black Theology: Toward an African-centered Theology of the African American Religious Experience, solidifies their conclusions and outlines, most definitely, a theology of the African American experience that is grounded in an Akan theological anthropology, defining the relationship between the human condition, ancestors and the creator within the philosophy of the Akan of Ghana, West Africa.
Positioning womanist theologians as his point of departure for a reconsideration of the liberative possibilities of traditional and diasporan African concepts, Clark succinctly re constructs what he refers to as an African-centered theology-using African concepts- through which African American theologians and African American Christians in particular, can seriously begin redefine themselves in line with an African conception of salvation and find human value, again, in the African religious thought of their ancestors.
Clark proposes that this cultural-spiritual crisis stems from their ongoing engagement with Protestant theology. Great Awakenings, an interrelated theology that African culture, people and religions were sinful and that it was only through Jesus Christ that one could be saved from this sin; the human condition is one defined by depravity and Africans are most specifically outside of the scope of salvation as heathens.
Womanist theology provides the rationale through which Clark situates a critique of and alternative to this protestant Christology. Clark maintains that this doctrine of salvation is also the defining key to a Christian life for most African American Christians, even for Cone and black liberation theologians, heir to the Christology posed by Karl Barth, defining the revelation of the Word of God in Jesus Christ as the starting point for Christianity.
See Clark, Indigenous Black Theology. James H. Cone and Gayraud S. Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, Bushman, Ricard Lyman, ed. Cheng, Patrick. New York: Seabury Books, Jefferson, Thomas.
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Siecienski, Edward A. The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy. Sugirtharajah, R. S, ed. New York: Orbis,
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