Witness : two hundred years of African-American faith and practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York / Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie, Kevin McGruder
Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.) History Search this
Physical description:
xii, 708 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Church history
History
Place:
New York (N.Y.)
Date:
2013
Contents:
"Upon this rock" -- Gathered in Jesus' name -- "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us," 1901-1908 -- "Forward in a larger service" : Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1908-1937 -- Toward a new earth : Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Abyssinian Baptist Church, and prophetic Christianity, 1931-1943 -- "Keep the faith!" Abyssinian Baptist Church, the church of the masses, 1944-1972 -- "Higher ground": Samuel DeWitt Proctor and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1972-1989 -- "A calling to fulfill" : Calvin O. Butts III -- "To serve this present age" -- Bicentennial photograph gallery -- Afterwords. The challenge of the prophetic witness in the twenty-first century / Cornel West -- Building on connections, advancing a frontier : women and urban ministry / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Appendixes -- A reflection : the role of the photographic archive in the Abyssinian Baptist Church / Deborah Willis -- Photograph gallery : Abyssinian and its community
Summary:
"This detailed history of the famous Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York City, begins with its organization in 1809 and continues through its relocations, its famous senior pastors, and its many crises and triumphs, up to the present. Considered the largest Protestant congregation in the United States during the pre-megachurch 1930s, this church plays a very important part in the history of New York City." -- Publisher's website.
