Rivers of Righteousness and Words of Warning. Sermons on the Christ Life with Opinions from Many of God's Men

Jones, Pastor Chas. P.

Edité par People's Defender Print, Jackson, Miss, 1897

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5¾" x 3¾". Stapled wrappers, now housed in a custom box and chemise. pp. [6], x, 186. Good: chips to front wrap and some loss to backstrip; printed on acidic and very fragile paper which is prone to chipping. This previously unknown work is likely the most important book ever published related to the African American Holiness Movement (AAHM). It almost certainly played a significant role in the spread of a controversial doctrine that ultimately led to the formation of two new sects which today have over six million combined followers. The book was written by Pastor Charles Price Jones, one of the three founders of the AAHM. The first half of the book contains the only known text of seven of Jones' earliest Holiness sermons which lay the foundation for what became the first iteration of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). The rest of the book contains 22 different essays, mostly by Black authors, further expounding on the principles of Jones' sermons as well as the ideas shared in the book's introduction and closing. Considering the book's timing and place of publication, it is likely the first published account of the African American Holiness Movement and its principles. The Holiness Movement emerged in the United States during the 19th century as a significant religious movement within Protestantism. It is rooted in the Wesleyan tradition, particularly the teachings of John Wesley, who emphasized the concept of Christian perfection the belief that believers could experience a second work of grace, leading to a life of holiness and sanctification. The movement gained momentum in the 1830s and 1840s, largely in response to the perceived spiritual complacency of mainstream Protestantism. It emphasized personal holiness, entire sanctification, and the possibility of living a life free from willful sin. The movement grew out of the Methodist Church, with figures like Phoebe Palmer, a prominent evangelist, advocating for the "altar experience" as a means of achieving holiness. By the late 19th century, the Holiness Movement had fractured into various denominations, leading to the establishment of churches like the Church of the Nazarene, the Salvation Army, and the Wesleyan Church. The movement's influence extended into the Pentecostal movement, particularly with the doctrine of sanctification as a distinct, post-conversion experience. Charles Price Jones and the African American Holiness Movement We learn from John M. Giggie's After Redemption. Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta 1875-1915. (Oxford University Press, 2008) that "[William Christian, Charles Price Jones, and Charles Harrison Mason] birthed the African American holiness movement. Eventually becoming national in scope, its origins were local and deeply entangled in the post-Reconstruction history of black life in the [Mississippi and Arkansas] Deltas. Specifically, its taproots lay in the misery generated by the failure of Reconstruction and the rising level of public confusion and dissatisfaction triggered by recent changes in Baptist and Methodist life . . . Christian, Jones, and Mason preached subtle variations on a central theme namely, that earthly comfort, security, and authority lay not in the teaching of any denominational church but in the acceptance of their theology of moral perfectionism. At its core lay the idea that Christians of any rank or station in life could suddenly be sanctified and forever washed of sin." Another great encapsulation of the AAHM comes from the doctoral dissertation of David Douglas Daniels, III, Ph.D., The Cultural renewal of slave religion: Charles Price Jones and the emergence of the holiness movement in Mississippi (Union Theological Seminary, 1992): "The holiness movement emerged as a struggle within the ranks of the new, young African American Baptists who came to prominence after Reconstruction during the 1880s and 1890s. They were the recent graduates and instructors at colleges such.

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• Titre: Rivers of Righteousness and Words of Warning. Sermons on the Christ Life with Opinions from Many of God's Men
• Éditeur: People's Defender Print, Jackson, Miss
• Date de parution: 1897
• État de l'article: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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  • Religion
  • African Americana