Title: Elevating the race : Theophilus G. Steward, Black theology, and the making of an African American civil society, 1865-1924 /
Authors: Miller, Albert George, 1951-
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Steward, T. G.; African Methodist Episcopal Church Clergy Biography.; Wilberforce University Presidents Biography.; African Americans Biography; African American political activists Biography.; African American theologians Biography.; African Americans Civil rights History; African Americans Social conditions; Black theology History.; Civil society United States History.
Abstract: "Albert Miller examines Theophilus Gould Steward's accomplishments and writings - including his unpublished manuscripts and his overlooked Victorian novel - to assess the ideas that he left to posterity and to consider how they shaped his times. The book devotes individual chapters to the key themes that dominated Steward's life: African American education, reconciling theology with modern science, the intersection of rational theology and moral virtues, the contradictions of race, the role of women in African American civil society, and Steward's views on the military and imperialism."--BOOK JACKET.