Hard-Fighting Soldiers : A History of African American Churches of Christ.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
Intro -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Chronology of African American Churches of Christ -- Prologue -- The Pilgrimage of F. F. Carson, Spiritual Warrior -- Part ONE -- From Slavery to Freedom -- Enslaved Africans and the Stone-Campbell Movement, 1816-1899 -- - 1 - -- Brothers in Black -- Enslaved Africans in the Stone-Campbell Movement -- - 2 - -- Mother Churches -- The Emergence of African American Churches of Christ -- - 3 - -- Founding Fathers -- Pathfinders in African American Churches of Christ -- Part two -- African American Churches of Christ and the "Race Problem" in America, 1900-1930 -- - 4 - -- "Making Love to Our Daughters" -- The Racial Thought of White Churches of Christ -- - 5 - -- "In a Class by Himself" -- S. R. Cassius and the "Race Problem" in Churches of Christ -- Part three -- The Age of Marshall Keeble, 1931-1968 -- - 6 - -- Setting the House on Fire -- Marshall Keeble and the "Hard" Theology of African American Churches of Christ -- - 7 - -- Warhorses -- G. P. Bowser, the "Big Four," and the Structuring of African American Churches of Christ -- - 8 - -- "Nonviolent Gadflies" -- African American Churches of Christ and the Quest for Civil Rights -- Part 4 -- Finding Their Own Way, 1969-2008 -- - 9 - -- Making Something Out of Nothing -- Annie C. Tuggle, Thelma M. Holt, and the Women's Movement in African American Churches of Christ -- - 10 - -- "I'm Coming Up Lord" -- The Hymnody of African American Churches of Christ -- - 11 - -- "The Magic of Education" -- African American Churches of Christ and the Pursuit of Knowledge -- - 12 - -- Brothers in Arms -- African American Churches of Christ in the Global Experience -- EpilogueFrom the Outhouse to the White House -- The Paradox of Black Churches of Christ During the Obama Presidency -- Bibliography -- Notes.
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African American churches. African American churches-History. Church history.