Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African American religion in the South / Stephen Ward Angell

By:

Angell, Stephen W

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: Knoxville Univ. of Tennessee Press 1992Edition: 1. edDescription: XII, 340 p. : IllISBN:

0870497340
9780870497346
1572331569
9781572331563

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

287.8092

LOC classification:

B BX 8449 A583b 1992

Contents:

Introduction -- Youthful evangelist -- A.M.E. pastor and army chaplain -- Organizing a freed people -- Black minister in politics -- Turner at Savannah -- Politics, economics, and exodus -- Turner becomes a bishop -- Healing sectional wounds in the A.M.E. Church of the 1880s -- Strains within the southern A.M.E. Church -- Turner's church management in the 1890s -- A field fully ripe for the harvest -- Turner's final years -- Epilogue: the growth of a black theologian.

Summary: "Henry McNeal Turner was an "epoch-making man," as his colleague Reverdy Ransom called him. A bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1880 to 1915, Turner was also a politician and Georgia legislator during Reconstruction, U.S. Army chaplain, newspaper editor, prohibition advocate, civil rights and back-to-Africa activist, African missionary, and early proponent of black theology. This richly detailed book, the first full-length critical biography of Turner, firmly places him alongside DuBois and Washington as a preeminent visionary of the postbellum African-American experience."--BOOK JACKET. "The strength and vitality of today's black church tradition owes much to the herculean labors of pioneers such as Turner, one of the most skillful denominational builders in American history. When emancipation created the prerequisites for a strong national religious organization, Turner, with his boldness, charisma, political wisdom, eloquence, and energy, took full advantage of the opportunity. Combining evangelicalism with forthright agitation for racial freedom, he instigated the most momentous transformation in A.M.E. Church history--the mission to the South."--BOOK JACKET. "Stephen Angell views Turner's advocacy of ordination for women and his missionary work in Africa as a further outgrowth of the bishop's deep evangelical commitment. The book's epilogue offers the first serious analysis of Turner's theology and his replies to racist distortions of the Christian message."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	B BX 8449 A583b 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000064719

Introduction --
Youthful evangelist --
A.M.E. pastor and army chaplain --
Organizing a freed people --
Black minister in politics --
Turner at Savannah --
Politics, economics, and exodus --
Turner becomes a bishop --
Healing sectional wounds in the A.M.E. Church of the 1880s --
Strains within the southern A.M.E. Church --
Turner's church management in the 1890s --
A field fully ripe for the harvest --
Turner's final years --
Epilogue: the growth of a black theologian.

"Henry McNeal Turner was an "epoch-making man," as his colleague Reverdy Ransom called him. A bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1880 to 1915, Turner was also a politician and Georgia legislator during Reconstruction, U.S. Army chaplain, newspaper editor, prohibition advocate, civil rights and back-to-Africa activist, African missionary, and early proponent of black theology. This richly detailed book, the first full-length critical biography of Turner, firmly places him alongside DuBois and Washington as a preeminent visionary of the postbellum African-American experience."--BOOK JACKET. "The strength and vitality of today's black church tradition owes much to the herculean labors of pioneers such as Turner, one of the most skillful denominational builders in American history. When emancipation created the prerequisites for a strong national religious organization, Turner, with his boldness, charisma, political wisdom, eloquence, and energy, took full advantage of the opportunity. Combining evangelicalism with forthright agitation for racial freedom, he instigated the most momentous transformation in A.M.E. Church history--the mission to the South."--BOOK JACKET. "Stephen Angell views Turner's advocacy of ordination for women and his missionary work in Africa as a further outgrowth of the bishop's deep evangelical commitment. The book's epilogue offers the first serious analysis of Turner's theology and his replies to racist distortions of the Christian message."--BOOK JACKET.

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