![]() Thomas is the author of They Like to Never Quit Praisin’ God: The Role of Celebration in Preaching. 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. Unfortunately, this is attitude is reflected in many contemporary churches. During the Reformation, the pulpit was the rudder that steered the culture but now the pulpit is caught amongst the waves from other ships. “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.” With the advent of post-modernism, the pulpit has lost a bit of its power and grandeur. Preaching with sacred fire : an anthology of African American sermons, 1750 to the present Author Call Number Edition Publication Information Physical. 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. It captures the stunning diversity of the cultural and historical. 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. A groundbreaking anthology, Preaching with Sacred Fire is a unique and powerful work. Taylor, Vashti McKenzie, and many others―offers a rare view of the unheralded role of the African American preacher in American history. 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. He argued that while many historians consider Washington. One hundred sermons that display the victorious, although sometimes painful, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America. Historian Peter Lillback talked about his book, George Washington's Sacred Fire.
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