Faith Confronts Evil: From Birthmothers to Holy Women, African American Christian Women, 1619-1865 - Tapa blanda

Omolade, Barbara

 
9781666777949: Faith Confronts Evil: From Birthmothers to Holy Women, African American Christian Women, 1619-1865
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ISBN 10: 1666777943 ISBN 13: 9781666777949
Editorial: Cascade Books, 2024

Sinopsis

Faith Confronts Evil tells the stories of African American women before the Civil War who countered the rampant evil of slavery with the strength of their Christian faith. They claimed the words of the gospel, that Jesus comes to set the captives free. They embraced Christianity as the source of liberty, humanity, and justice in which God was on their side, Jesus was their friend, and the Holy Spirit was their guide to all truth. Their stories are essential for understanding the central role Christian faith played in realizing, however imperfectly, the promises the US Constitution made to all its citizens. As we listen to Phillis Wheatley, Jarena Lee, Betsy Crissman, Mary Reynolds, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and many others, we discover that their shared stories turn strangers into acquaintances, acquaintances into friends. These stories of antebellum African American Christian women are our story, an “our” that embraces anyone who identifies as a Christian or anyone who is merely interested in the early formation of the United States of America.

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Barbara Omolade was assistant professor of sociology at City College of the City University of New York and the first dean for multicultural affairs at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the author of The Rising Song of African American Women (1994). Susan M. Felch is emerita professor of English at Calvin University and the emerita director of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. She is the co-author of Teaching and Christian Imagination (2016) and the author of many other books and articles.

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Editorial
Cascade Books
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1666777943
ISBN 13 
9781666777949
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Número de páginas
160
Editor
Felch Susan M.
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