An address to those who keep slaves and approve the practice / Richard Allen The shadow of a great rock in a weary land The river of the water of life / Brother Carper The destined superiority of the Negro / Alexander Crummell What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass Receiving the call to preach / Jarena Lee On Christian marriage / Zilpha Elaw Women in the gospel A threshing sermon A world to my Christian sisters Christian perfection / Julia A.J.
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John the Baptist, at the request of the Right Worshipful the Grand Master Prince Hall, and the rest of the brethren of the African Lodge of the Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons in Boston / John Marrant The funeral sermon of Mary Henery / George White - Social and religious emancipation : 1790-1865.
Thomas's or the African Episcopal, Church, Philadelphia : on account of the abolition of the African slave trade, on that day, by the Congress of the United States / Absolom Jones A sermon preached on the 24th day of June 1789, being the festival of St. Letter upon the doctrine of the extent of the atonement of Christ / John Chavis An address : delivered before the Coloured Population of Providence Rhode Island on Thanksgiving Day, Novem/ Hosea Easton Universal salvation : a very eminent doctrine with some account of the life and character of its author, a sermon delivered at Rutland, West Parish in the year 1805, by Lemuel Haynes / Lemuel Haynes Excerpts of sermons by John Jea / John Jea A Thanksgiving sermon, preached January 1, 1808, in St.
The beginnings of African American preaching : 1750-1789."Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro. This magnificent work beautifully renders the complexity, spiritual richness, and strength of African American life. "Even during the most difficult and oppressive times," Simmons and Thomas write in the preface, "the delivery, creativity, charisma, expressivity, fervor, forcefulness, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, and vision of black preaching gave and gives hope to a community under siege. What they all have in common is hope, resilience, and sacred fire. They draw on a vast and luminous landscape of poetic language, using metaphor, rhythm, and imagery to communicate with their congregations. Biographies of the preachers put their work in the cultural and homiletic context of their periods The preachers of these sermons are men and women from a range of faiths, ancestries, and educational backgrounds. Sermons from the first decade of the twenty-first century point toward the future of African American preaching.
The collection provides new insights into the underpinnings of the black fight for emancipation and the rise and growth of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Braxton, former Senior Pastor, The Riverside Church of New York Reseña del editor: These sermons warm the heart and ignite deep reflection about the true meaning of freedom.-Brad R. This remarkable anthology brings readers close to the flames of this hope-inspiring religious rhetoric.
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