The black fire reader
Subtitle: a documentary resource on African American Pentecostalism
By: edited by Estrelda Alexander ; foreword by A.G. Miller
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781608995622
Subjects: Sources; African American Pentecostals; Religion; African American churches; Church history; Schwarze; African Americans; Pfingstbewegung; History
Description: "This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the dynamic growth of the modern Pentecostal movement{u2014}the fastest-growing segment of global Christianity. The doctrinal statements, sermons, songs, testimonies, news articles, as well as scholarly treatises included here allow black leaders, scholars, and laypeople to speak in their own voices and use their own language to tell us their stories and articulate the issues that have been important to them throughout the one-hundred-year history of this movement. Among the constant themes that continue to emerge is their appreciation of an empowering encounter with the Holy Spirit as the resource for engaging the dehumanizing racial reality of contemporary America." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- A.G. Miller -- Preface / -- Estrelda Y. Alexander -- Introduction -- Pentecostal retentions from African spirituality and slave religion.; title: Every time I feel the Spirit (Negro spiritual) --; title: The ring shout  -- William F. Allen -- From; title: The sanctified church  -- Zora Neale Hurston; title: The holiness meeting --; title: Is it right for the saints of God to dance?  -- Charles Harrison Mason -- The legacy of the nineteenth-century Black holiness movement.; title: Deeper, deeper  -- Charles Price Jones; title: Poor Pilgrim's work  -- William Christian -- From; title: An authobiography: the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith  -- Amanda Berry Smith; title: A brand plucked from the burning  -- Julia Foote; title: Baptism of the Holy Spirit  -- Charles Price Jones -- The Azusa Street revival.; title: Baptized with the Holy Ghost --; title: Pentecost has come  -- The Apostolic Faith; title: Mission in Los Angeles --; title: Doctrines and disciplines of the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, California  -- William Joseph Seymour; title: The work in Virginia, 907 Glasken St, Portsmouth, VA  -- Lucy Farrow; title: Sermon from a dress  -- Ophelia Wiley; title: Music from heaven  -- Jennie Evans Seymour; title: Sister Hutchins' testimony  -- Julia Hutchins; title: Tennessee evangelist witnesses  -- Charles Harrison Mason; title: The inside story of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Azusa Street, April 1906  -- Emma Cotton -- African American Trinitarian denominations.; title: A special message from mother to her children  -- Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate; title: Elder Mason tells of receiving the Holy Ghost --; title: Basis of union: who we are ;; title: Our walk & our work: Sanctification, The baptism of the Holy Spirit  -- The Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas; title: The economic persecution  -- Ida Bell Robinson; title: Jesus Christ: the surprising contemporary  -- Herbert Daughtry -- African American Oneness Pentecostalism.; title: The waterway  -- Hattie Pryor; title: The victim of the flaming sword ;; title: The finest of the wheat  -- Garfield Thomas Haywood; title: The anthropology of Jesus ;; title: There is no denying the Father in baptizing in the name of the Lord Jesus  -- Robert Clarence Lawson -- From; title: With water and Spirit  -- James C. Richardson Jr.; title: A letter from Mother Tate concerning baptism in the name of 'Jesus only'  -- Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate; title: Is Jesus God the Father or is he the Son of God?  -- Rosa Artimus Horn -- Black Pentecostals in majority-white denominations.; title: Stick to the church of God  -- Crawford F. Bright Sr. -- From; title: When God was Black  -- Robert Harrison -- From; title: Silent voices, powerful messages  -- Doretha O'Quinn; title: Resolution on human rights ;; title: Resolution on Racism and ethnic disparity  -- Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee); title: Statement of the General Presbytery of the Assemblies of God regarding social concern  -- General Presbytery of the Assemblies of God -- Women in African American Pentecostalism.; title: Women's rights  -- Lillian Sparks -- From; title: What it means to pray through  -- Elizabeth J. Dabney; title: Was a woman called to preach? Yes!  -- Rosa Artimus Horn -- From; title: Go tell my brethren  -- Earline Allen; title: Personal views on the ordination of women in the Church of God in Christ  -- Blondell Robinson; title: The ordination of women: right or wrong?  -- Jerry Ramsey III; title: Can a woman preach or teach the gospel of Christ?  -- Randolph G. Goodwin -- Neo-Pentecostal and charismatic movements. -- From:; title: Right or reconciled  -- Joseph Garlington; title: I believe in the Holy Ghost  -- John Richard Bryant; title: The gospel of bling  -- Robert Franklin -- Theological challenges of African American Pentecostalism into the twenty-first century.; title: Social implications of Pentecostal power  -- Bennie Goodwin; title: Racial reconciliation manifesto  -- Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches of North America; title: A God of justice  -- George McKinney; title: Shall we call this dream progressive Pentecostalism?  -- James A. Forbes Jr.; title: Homosexuality as a Pentecostal phenomenon  -- James S. Tinney -- Afterword:; title: Prayer for freedom from race prejudice -- Robert Clarence Lawson.