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Early Black Methodist Preachers, 2010
Get PDFThe first Methodist preachers proclaimed the Gospel to all people, white and black, bond and free. Many slaves welcomed the message and came as they could to hear it. The Methodist Gospel and pattern of religious experience was simple, personal and readily comprehended by Blacks as well as whites. Richard Allen, himself a Methodist convert and preacher said that the Methodist form of faith was the best for his people. A further reason for the popularity of Methodism among the slaves was the fact that the early preachers actively sought the slaves, made them feel welcome at the preaching services and took them into the “societies.
The Significance of the Interdenominational Theological Center, 2010
Get PDFThe emergence of the Interdenominational Theological Center has considerable significance for theological education in general as well as the educational needs of the black ministry. The significance of its impact is implied in the elements used to construct an educational philosophy. Its significance is seen in its contribution to ecumenicity and to the wider American culture
Denominational Leadership And Public Policy, 2007
Get PDFWhen Jesus was asked the question regarding one’s obligation of paying taxes to the civil authorities, he was somewhat agitated. He requested a coin and then looking at the coin responded, “Whose head is this and whose title?” They answered, “The emperor’s.” Then he said to them,“Give therefore tothe emperor the things that are the emperor’s and to God the things that are God’s.” -Matthew 22:20-2
Faith Perspectives on the Deepening U.S. Health-Care-Coverage-Crises: Uninsured and Underinsured, 2007
No full textThe prophet Jeremiah has a poignant passage in the concluding verse of chapter eight where he raises rhetorical questions that employ an imagery regarding health care. As new-age prophets, we must echo the sentiment of yesteryears sage: “Is there no balm in Gilead?” Is there no physician there? As if the response is known, the prophet then raises the operative inquiry: “Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?
The Unique Features of African-American Spirituality in the Context Of Christian Healing, 2006
Get PDFThe phenomenon of Christian spiritual healing as a natural quality of African-American spirituality is the essence of this essay. This spirituality is given prominence in Archie Smith’s Navigating the Deep River: Spirituality in African American Families. Smith’s treatise “is about remaining hopeful.” His central metaphor is the well-established imagery in African-American culture of the river (or water). Such insight is evidenced when referring to Africans’ survival inthe “diaspora,” especially North America. Scholars in African-American studies, especially in theology, biblical studies, and history have used this imagery: Cain Hope Felder, Troubling Biblical WatersVincent Harding, There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America; Howard Thurman’s A Track to the Water’s Edge; and his mystical reflections in Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death
No Safe Space: The Impact of Sexist Hermeneutics on Black Women Victim Survivors of Intimate Abuse: A Womanist Pastoral Care Perspective, 2004
Get PDFThe intent of this essay is to identify and examine one of the ways in which the Black Church replicates the psychic and emotional violence of intimate violence. At issue is concern over the destructive impact of sexist hermeneutics as transmitted during the preaching moment on a specific population of the congregation—Black women victim survivors of intimate violence. The term refers to male perpetrated rape, wife/partner battering, and childhood sexual abuse. The scholarship and witness of African-American women’s voices inform this discourse
The Black Church: Missio Dei and Giving, 2003
No full textThe social crisis within African-American communities demands an active fellowship of believers. Congregational presence alone, however, is not adequate; congregations must move from presence to active engagement. How to make this transformation is one of the key issues this essay addresses. Given the new social realities, congregations can no longer be content with only providing acts of benevolence (such as emergency food and clothing), but must address the systemic issues that oppress, dehumanize, and contribute to death, not life, in local communities as well as the larger world. It is unknown if congregations are willing to rethink and change current priorities in an effort to address the important missional challenges beyond their own needs
Faith-Based Institutions and Family Support Services Among African-American Muslim Masjids and Black Churches, 2001
Get PDFFaith-based community development has become an important trend in recent years among philanthropic foundations such as the Ford Foundation and in the political arena. In the United States, both presidential candidates, A1 Gore and George W. Bush, have spoken about the need for a “faith-based initiative” where religious groups can be used to deliver social services, especially in poor urban neighborhoods. While the wisdom and the pros and cons of such a policy can and should be debated, the faith-based initiative does recognize the historical fact that religious groups are often grass-roots community institutions, and they have delivered some forms of social services in their neighborhoods
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1974
No full textInterdenominational Theological Center An Ecumenical Professional Graduate School of Theolog
Reflections on Ministry in the New Testament
Get PDFThe attempt to relate the contemporary practice of ministry to New Testament structures of thought represents a complicated undertaking which encompasses the broad scope of the fields generally identified as biblical and practical theology. This occasion provides an opportunity, therefore, to consider some aspects of the relationship between these theological disciplines. The effort to correlate the work of biblical and practical theology must begin at the level of presuppositions. The problem focuses most sharply upon the definition of appropriate foundations for the task. This setting does not permit a review of the process through which biblical and practical theology have achieved their current understanding of their individual tasks. However, when the effort is made to correlate these two fields of endeavor, two issues come immediately to mind which call for some consideration, namely, the problem of biblical authority and the issue of hermeneutical procedures