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The Black sermonic tradition, or Black preaching tradition, is an approach to sermon (or homily) construction and delivery practiced primarily among African Americans in the Black Church. The tradition seeks to preach messages that appeal to both the intellect and the emotive dimensions of humanity.
A.M.E. Church Review, quarterly journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Religion of Black Americans; African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Black church; British Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada; Christian Methodist Episcopal Church; Churches Uniting in Christ (formerly the Consultation on Church Union [COCU] – founded 1960).
Modern American origins of contemporary black theology can be traced to July 31, 1966, when an ad hoc group of 51 concerned clergy, calling themselves the National Committee of Negro Churchmen, bought a full page ad in The New York Times to publish their "Black Power Statement", which proposed a more aggressive approach to combating racism using the Bible for inspiration. [5]
The Prophethood of Black Believers: An African-American Political Theology for Ministry, Westminster, John Knox, 1994. Roberts, Samuel K. In the Path of Virtue: The African American Moral Tradition, Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1999. Roberts, Samuel K. African American Christian Ethics, Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2001.
Smith, R. Drew, ed. Long March ahead: African American churches and public policy in post-civil rights America (2004). Sobel, M. Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith (1979) Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History (1997) Spencer, Jon Michael. Black hymnody: a hymnological history of the African-American ...
The First African Baptist Church had its beginnings in 1817 when John Mason Peck and the former enslaved John Berry Meachum began holding church services for African Americans in St. Louis. [32] Meachum founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827. It was the first African American church west of the Mississippi River. Although there were ...
Black Methodism in the United States is the Methodist tradition within the Black Church, largely consisting of congregations in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME), African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion or AMEZ), Christian Methodist Episcopal denominations, as well as those African American congregations in other Methodist denominations, such as the Free Methodist Church.
Black Catholicism or African-American Catholicism comprises the African-American people, beliefs, and practices in the Catholic Church. There are around three million Black Catholics in the United States, making up 6% of the total population of African Americans, who are mostly Protestant , and 4% of American Catholics .