African Methodism and its Wesleyan heritage
Subtitle: reflections on AME Church history
By: Dennis C. Dickerson
Publisher: AMEC Sunday School Union
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780929386034
Subjects: African Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Church; History
Other titles: Reflections on AME Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Richard F. Norris; title: Foreword  -- Robert J. Williams; title: Foreword  -- James David Armstrong; title: The demands upon denominational history : the case of the African Methodist Episcopal Church --; title: The case for a Wesleyan interpretation of A.M.E. Church history --; title: Scripture and hymnody in the conversion of Richard Allen --; title: Heritage and hymnody : Richard Allen and the making of African Methodism --; title: Toward a theology of African Methodism : a conversation with Wesley's theology --; title: Bishop Daniel A. Payne and the A.M.E. mission to the "ransomed" --; title: J. Albert Johnson : the Bermuda years --; title: Michigan minister and missionary leader : Lillian Thurman in the 1890s --; title: Family and faith : the medical witness of Emma Ann Virginia Reynolds, M.D., 1862-1917 --; title: Negotiating denominational identity : African Methodism and Wesleyan hymnody --; title: Homiletics and the humble : preaching in Georgia during the Turner era, 1896-1908 --; title: Partners in politics : Bishop Benjamin W. Arnett and President William McKinley, 1896-1901 --; title: Clergy and the construction of Black civil society : the case of the Careys and the Clements --; title: Rufus E. Clement, Zion Methodism, and the Atlanta School Board Election of 1953 --; title: Problematic politics : the Careys in the public square --; title: The Wesleyan witness in the U.S. civil rights movement : the Allen legacy against 20th century American apartheid --; title: Theologizing Rosa Parks --; title: A general officer in the Nashville civil rights movement : the public ministry of Andrew N. White, Jr. --; title: The civil rights movement in Chicago : the role of Carl A. Fuqua --; title: A presiding elder makes history : Robert E. Keesee and the integration of Scarritt College --; title: Black ecumenism : efforts to establish a United Methodist Episcopal Church, 1918-1932.