Songs of Zion
Songs of Zion

Author: James T. Campbell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1995-09-07

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0195360052

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This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the book studies the complex human and intellectual traffic that has bound African American and South African experience. It explores the development and growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church both in South Africa and America, and the interaction between the two churches. This is a highly innovative work of comparative and religious history. Its linking of the United States and African black religious experiences is unique and makes it appealing to readers interested in religious history and black experience in both the United States and South Africa.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church

Author: Dennis C. Dickerson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 0521191521

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Explores the emergence of African Methodism within the black Atlantic and how it struggled to sustain its liberationist identity.

Fortress Commentary on the Bible
Fortress Commentary on the Bible

Author: Margaret Aymer

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 1472

ISBN-13: 1451489552

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The Fortress Commentary on the New Testament presents a balanced synthesis of current scholarship. The contributors bring a rich diversity of perspectives to the task of connecting solid historical critical analysis of Scripture with sensitivity to theological, cultural, and interpretive issues arising in our encounter with the text. The volume includes introductory articles, section introductions, and individual book articles that explore key sense units through three lenses: • The Text in Its Ancient Context • The Text in the Interpretive Tradition • The Text in Contemporary Discussion Comprehensive and useful for preaching, teaching, and research.

The West African Methodist Collegiate School, 1911–2021
The West African Methodist Collegiate School, 1911–2021

Author: Christopher E. S. Warburton

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-12-22

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1666704385

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The West African Methodist Collegiate School 1911-2021 presents an intricate analysis of challenging missionary work in Sierra Leone and West Africa. In meticulous detail, the book revisits an era that spans the slave trade and the manumission of slaves, and examines the ways that missionaries helped to educate former slaves and free men for a viable form of existence. The checkered history of the school chronicles the adversities, courage, and determination of men who dared to preserve an educational institution that was designed to provide religious and secular education. In more elaborate terms, the book reveals how changing circumstances and conditions of the twenty-first century can obscure a nineteenth-century concept when socioeconomic challenges and the vicissitudes of war and epidemics become too overpowering.

Cyclopaedia of African Methodism
Cyclopaedia of African Methodism

Author: Alexander Walker Wayman

Publisher:

Published: 1882

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13:

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Cyclopaedia of African Methodism by Alexander Walker Wayman, first published in 1882, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South
Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South

Author: Stephen Ward Angell

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781572331563

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Henry McNeal Turner was an "epoch-making man, " as his colleague Reverdy Ransom called him. A bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1880 to 1915, Turner was also a politician and Georgia legislator during Reconstruction, U.S. Army chaplain, newspaper editor, prohibition advocate, civil rights and back-to-Africa activist, African missionary, and early proponent of black theology. This richly detailed book, the first full-length critical biography of Turner, firmly places him alongside DuBois and Washington as a preeminent visionary of the postbellum African-American experience. The strength and vitality of today's black church tradition owes much to the herculean labors of pioneers such as Turner, one of the most skillful denominational builders in American history. When emancipation created the prerequisites for a strong national religious organization, Turner, with his boldness, charisma, political wisdom, eloquence, and energy, took full advantage of the opportunity. Combining evangelicalism with forthright agitation for racial freedom, he instigated the most momentous transformation in A.M.E. Church history--the mission to the South. Stephen Angell views Turner's advocacy of ordination for women and his missionary work in Africa as a further outgrowth of the bishop's deep evangelical commitment. The book's epilogue offers the first serious analysis of Turner's theology and his replies to racist distortions of the Christian message.