Martha Simmons is the editor of Preaching on the Brink and 9.11.01: African American Leaders Respond to an American Tragedy. This magnificent work beautifully renders the complexity, spiritual richness, and strength of African American life. “Even during the most difficult and oppressive times,” Simmons and Thomas write in the preface, “the delivery, creativity, charisma, expressivity, fervor, forcefulness, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, and vision of black preaching gave and gives hope to a community under siege.” What they all have in common is hope, resilience, and sacred fire. They draw on a vast and luminous landscape of poetic language, using metaphor, rhythm, and imagery to communicate with their congregations. The preachers of these sermons are men and women from a range of faiths, ancestries, and educational backgrounds. Biographies of the preachers put their work in the cultural and homiletic context of their periods. Sermons from the first decade of the twenty-first century point toward the future of African American preaching. This collection of preaching sermons comprises the 16 lectures Dr. Here are more than 100 sermons, from both Christian and Muslim traditions, that speak to the pressing issues. The collection provides new insights into the underpinnings of the black fight for emancipation and the rise and growth of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Here is the complete collection of the 18 preaching sermons Martyn Lloyd-Jones delivered on the topic of preaching and preachers. What 'Preaching With Sacred Fire' underscores is that though seldom was wider light cast upon it, this oral tradition has flourished for centuries from the pulpit: Men and women who have educated, uplifted and unified their flocks. This book acknowledges African American preaching as an academic discipline, and invites all students and preachers into a scholarly, dynamic, and useful exploration of the topic. Taylor, Vashti McKenzie, and many others―offers a rare view of the unheralded role of the African American preacher in American history. The Introduction to African American Preaching is an important, groundbreaking book. The journey through this anthology―which includes selections from Jarena Lee, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Gardner C. Thomas reveal, is a work of art and a lesson in unmatched rhetoric. Each sermon, as editors Martha Simmons and Frank A. It captures the stunning diversity of the cultural and historical legacy of African American preaching more than three hundred years in the making. A groundbreaking anthology, Preaching with Sacred Fire is a unique and powerful work. One hundred sermons that display the victorious, although sometimes painful, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America.
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