Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism

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InterVarsity Press, May 3, 2011 - Religion - 406 pages
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Estrelda Alexander was raised in an urban, black, working-class, oneness Pentecostal congregation in the 1950s and 1960s, but she knew little of her heritage and thought that all Christians worshiped and believed as she did. Much later she discovered that many Christians not only knew little of her heritage but considered it strange. Even today, most North Americans remain ignorant of black Pentecostalism. Black Fire remedies lack of historical consciousness by recounting the story of African American Pentecostal origins and development. In this fascinating description she covers
  • what Pentecostalism retained from African spirituality
  • the legacy of the nineteenth-century black Holiness movement
  • William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival
  • African American trinitarian and oneness Pentecostal denominations
  • the role of women in African American Pentecostalism
  • African American neo-Pentecostals and charismatic movements
  • black Pentecostals in majority-white denominations
  • theological challenges of black Pentecostalism in the twenty-first century
Whether you come from an African American Pentecostal background or you just want to learn more, this book will unfold all the dimensions of this important movement's history and contribution to the life of the church.
 

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Contents

Foreword by David E Daniels
7
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
28
Saved and Sanctified
61
The Color Line Was Washed Away in the Blood
110
What Hath God Wrought
159
God and Christ Are
206
Singing the Lords Song in a Strange Land
249
If It Wasnt for the Women
293
African American NeoPentecostals and Charismatic Movements
342
Conclusion
391
Subject Index
404
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Estrelda Alexander (Ph.D., The Catholic University of America) is a visiting professor of theology in the School of Divinity at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and executive director of the William Seymour Educational Foundation.

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TitleBlack Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism
AuthorEstrelda Alexander
PublisherInterVarsity Press, 2011
ISBN083082586X, 9780830825868
Length406 pages
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Religion / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  
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