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Feb 25, 2020 · Danté Stewart. This year for Black History Month, CT reached out to several black Christian leaders to hear about a few of the African American theologians, past and present, who have had the...
- George Liele
- Rev. Henry Highland Garnet
- Rev. Alexander Crummell
- Richard Allen
- C. P. Jones
- Charles Octavius Boothe
“George Liele . . . was converted through the witness of his master. He was a subscriber to the Reformed faith, he was a gifted preacher, and he was free to carry on his work. Between 1773 and 1775, he established the Silver Bluff Church, and it was located on the South Carolina bank of the Savannah River near Augusta, Georgia. “Now, in about 1782,...
“Rev. Henry Highland Garnet . . . was born a slave in Kent County, Maryland; he escaped from slavery in 1824; he studied theology at Oneida Institute in Utica, New York; and became a pastor. Later he served as the president of Avery College in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. “He expressed some of his thoughts in his address to the National Convention of C...
“Another one that you may have heard of or may not have was Rev. Alexander Crummell. He emerged in the late 1850s. He was the first president of the American Negro Academy. He mentored none other than W. E. B. DuBois. If you’ve heard of DuBois and if you’ve read any of his things, then you have seen some of Crummell’s ideas. It was Crummell who gav...
“In 1781, (Richard) Allen began traveling the Methodist preaching circuits in Delaware and surrounding states. ‘My usual method was when I would get bare of clothes, to stop traveling and go to work,’ he said. ‘My hands administered to my necessities.’ Increasingly, prominent Methodist leaders, like Francis Asbury, made sure Allen had places to pre...
“A young man from Mississippi became a key leader in [the Holiness Church] movement, and his name was Charles Price Jones, or better known as C. P. Jones. In 1895 he pastored the Mount Helm Baptist Church. Now, the church came out of another church called First Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. First Baptist Church—now, of course, you know, i...
The following is excerpted from the introduction Walter R. Strickland II provided for Boothe’s book, Plain Theology for Plain People. Charles Octavius Boothe (1845–1924) was a reluctant teacher. To spare others his frustration with learning and teaching from books laced with dense theological rhetoric, Boothe wrote Plain Theology for Plain People.6...
The New Testament refers to a number of black people as well, including Simon of Cyrene, who carried Jesus' cross (Matthew 27:32), and the Ethiopian eunuch, the emissary of Queen Kandake (or ...
Dec 16, 2020 · Books. Seeing Black people in scripture. Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known. by Jessica Hooten Wilson in the December 16, 2020 issue. Share. African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope. What does it mean to exercise hope while reading the Bible?
We often find it difficult to detect the ethnic dimensions of a situation in the Bible, even when the author is trying to make it plain. Luke, for example, sprinkles ethnolinguistic markers throughout the account of Paul’s time in Jerusalem in Acts 21 (verses 11, 16, 29, 37-40) and 22 (verses 1, 17, 21, 28). In these chapters, Paul was ...
Nov 6, 2017 · Abraham Smith is Professor of New Testament at Southern Methodist University in the Perkins School of Theology. His major publications include: Mark: Shaping the Life and Legacy of Jesus (2015); “Paul and African American Biblical Interpretation,” in True to Our Native Land: An African American Commentary on the New Testament (2007); The New Interpreter’s Study Bible (2003), co-edited ...
May 23, 2011 · Baptist Church of Metro Atlanta, with her Bible in hand. But the large, black leather Bible with dog-eared pages and hand-written notes in the margins isn't just any Bible: It's the King James Version. And Floyd, like many African-Americans, wouldn't have it any other way. It's more than mere tradition. A civil rights veteran called the
