African-American Christianity
Subtitle: Essays in History
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 6, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780520075948
Subjects: Black studies; History of religion; Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches; Social history; Religion; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Religion - Church History; History: World; USA; Christianity - History - General; History / General; African American churches; African Americans; History; United States
First sentence: In the encounter with European Christianity in its Protestant form in North America, enslaved Africans and their descendants encountered something new: a fully articulated ritual relationship with the Supreme Being, who was pictured in the book that the Christians called the Bible not just as the Creator and Ruler of the Cosmos, but also as the God of History, a God who lifted up and cast down nations and peoples, a God whose sovereign will was directing all things toward an ultimate end, drawing good out of evil.