From Holy Power to Holy Profits
Title | From Holy Power to Holy Profits PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Malone (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Stresses the need for the black church to realise and accept its responsibility for eradicating economic injustice in the African American community.
Mighty Like a River
Title | Mighty Like a River PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Billingsley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1999-06-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780198026587 |
Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves after the Civil War, and from playing major roles in the Civil Rights Movement to offering community outreach programs in American cities today, black churches have been the focal point of social change in their communities. Based on extensive research over several years, Mighty Like a River is the first comprehensive account of how black churches have helped shape American society. An expert in African American culture, Andrew Billingsley surveys nearly a thousand black churches across the country, including its oldest, the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia. These black churches, whose roots extend back to antebellum times, have periodically confronted social, economic, and political problems facing the African American community. Mighty Like a River addresses such questions as: How widespread and effective is the community activity of black churches? What are the patterns of activities being undertaken today? How do activist churches confront such problems as family instability, youth development, AIDS and other health issues, and care for the elderly? With profiles of the remarkable black heroes and heroines who helped create the activist church, and a compelling agenda for expanding the black church's role in society at large, Mighty Like a River is an inspirational, visionary, and definitive account of the subject.
Holy Power, Holy Presence
Title | Holy Power, Holy Presence PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Dreyer |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780809144853 |
Western theology is frequently criticized for not having a fully developed pneumatology. According to these critics, preoccupation with Christology and an excessive focus on the nature and unity of God have come at the expense of a full theology of the three persons. While admitting that there is some truth to these criticisms, Elizabeth Dreyer maintains that those who level them base their conclusions on a narrow range of texts and thus fail to establish a true neglect of the Holy Spirit. Medieval authors offer a wealth of creative language and insight that speaks to the role of the Holy Spirit in contemporary spirituality and contributes to a renewed pneumatology for the twenty-first century. Book jacket.
Introduction to African American Studies
Title | Introduction to African American Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Talmadge Anderson |
Publisher | Black Classic Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1580730396 |
There is an ongoing debate as to whether African American Studies is a discipline, or multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary field. Some scholars assert that African American Studies use a well-defined common approach in examining history, politics, and the family in the same way as scholars in the disciplines of economics, sociology, and political science. Other scholars consider African American Studies multidisciplinary, a field somewhat comparable to the field of education in which scholars employ a variety of disciplinary lenses-be they anthropological, psychological, historical, etc., --to study the African world experience. In this model the boundaries between traditional disciplines are accepted, and researches in African American Studies simply conduct discipline based an analysis of particular topics. Finally, another group of scholars insists that African American Studies is interdisciplinary, an enterprise that generates distinctive analyses by combining perspectives from d
Yet With A Steady Beat
Title | Yet With A Steady Beat PDF eBook |
Author | Lee June, PhD |
Publisher | Moody Publishers |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2008-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1575673827 |
"A faith in the God of the Bible and an association with the institutional church have had a positive influence on the African American community, and were key in the survival of the slave experience in America," says psychologist and professor Dr. Lee June. This book traces the history of Christianity among African Americans and the development of the "Black Church"-those denominations created by, created for, and stewarded by African Americans. He examines the role the church has played politically and psychologically as well as spiritually in the lives of African Americans. This comprehensive psychological and spiritual look at an historic institution will be a valuable tool for both pastors and seminary professors.
Financial Institutions and Black Churches
Title | Financial Institutions and Black Churches PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight, Investigations, and the Resolution of Failed Financial Institutions |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
A Help to the Profitable Reading of the Psalms ...
Title | A Help to the Profitable Reading of the Psalms ... PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Walter (B.A., Rector of Langton, Horncastle.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1854 |
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