African American Preaching : The Contribution of Dr. Gardner C. Taylor

by Thomas, Gerald Lamont

• ISBN13: 9780820474120
• ISBN10: 0820474126
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

Gerald Lamont Thomas is Senior Pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church in Plainfield, New Jersey, and former Professor of Preaching at the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Chapter One Introduction	1	(6)
Background of the Study	2	(2)
Methodology	4	(3)
Chapter Two An Overview of African American Preaching and Preachers Part I	7	(36)
African Traditional Religions and their Beliefs	7	(5)
Monotheism-A Supreme Being	9	(1)
The Egyptians	10	(1)
The Dinka	11	(1)
The Yoruba	11	(1)
The Roots of African American Christianity 1619 to 1740	12	(4)
The First Great Awakening	14	(2)
The Emergence of the African American Church 1740 to 1800	16	(10)
Oral Tradition	18	(2)
Characteristics of Early African American Slave Preachers	20	(4)
Harry Hoosier	24	(1)
Jupiter Hammon	24	(1)
Other Pioneer Preachers	25	(1)
Brutality Towards the Slave Preacher	25	(1)
African American Preachers and the
Abolitionist Movement from 1800 to 1863	26	(1)
The Nineteenth Century African American Church	27	(1)
The African American Preacher and Slave Rebellion	28	(1)
The Abolitionist Movement from 1830 to 1863	29	(3)
Frederick Douglass	32	(2)
The African American Jeremiad	34	(1)
Reconstruction Era and The Social Gospel Movement 1864 to 1915	35	(8)
John Jasper	36	(2)
The Reconstruction Era 1865 to 1877	38	(1)
The Social Gospel Movement 1878 to 1915	39	(3)
Summary	42	(1)
Chapter Three An Overview of African American Preaching and Preachers Part II	43	(38)
Social Reforms and the Pre-Civil Rights Era 1916 to 1954	43	(13)
Charles Albert Tindley	45	(2)
The Musicality of African American Preaching	47	(3)
Lacey Kirk Williams	50	(2)
Howard Thurman	52	(3)
The Struggle for Human Dignity and Civil Rights	55	(1)
The Black Preacher and The Civil Rights Movement 1955 to 1970	56	(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr	57	(4)
The Need for Liberation	61	(2)
A Theology for Black Preaching and Womanist Perspectives on Preaching 1971 to the Present	63	(18)
Black Power and Black Theology	63	(3)
Black Preaching	66	(3)
Womanist Perspectives on Preaching	69	(2)
The Methodist Church and Women Preachers	71	(1)
The Baptist Church and Women Preachers	72	(3)
The Sanctified Church and Women Preachers	75	(2)
Woman as Preacher	77	(2)
Summary	79	(2)
Chapter Four The Life and Ministry of Gardner Calvin Taylor	81	(26)
His Early Influences	81	(1)
His Father	82	(1)
His Mother	83	(1)
His Formative Years	84	(1)
Public Elementary and High School Education	85	(1)
College	86	(2)
Seminary	88	(1)
Courtship	89	(1)
Marriage	90	(3)
Bethany Baptist Church, 1938-1941	93	(1)
Beulah Baptist Church, 1941-1943	94	(1)
M. Zion Baptist Church, 1943-1947	95	(3)
Concord Baptist Church of Christ, 1948-1990	98	(3)
The Progressive National Baptist Convention	101	(1)
Theological Educator	102	(1)
Colgate Rochester Divinity School, 1969-1972	103	(1)
Union Theological Seminary, 1973-1974	104	(1)
Harvard Divinity School, 1975-1976	105	(2)
Chapter Five Taylor's Sermon Methodology	107	(34)
Taylor's Theory of Preaching	107	(2)
The Personality of the Preacher	109	(1)
Recognizing and Removing the Presumptuousness of Preaching	110	(1)
Summary	111	(1)
The Purpose of Preaching	111	(2)
From Where Do Sermons Come?	113	(2)
Summary	115	(1)
The Artistic Canon in Classical Rhetoric	115	(12)
Aristotle (ca. 384-322 B.C.)	115	(3)
Cicero (ca. 106-43 B.C.)	118	(4)
Rhetorica ad Herennum	122	(2)
Quintillion (ca. A.D. 40-95)	124	(3)
Summary	127	(1)
An Analysis of Taylor's Theory and Practice for Preaching	127	(14)
Chapter Six Conclusion	141	(4)
Social Conditions for Applying the Gospel	141	(2)
Evaluation of Taylor's Theory of Preaching	143	(1)
Suggestions for Further Research	144	(1)
Appendix A A Sermon by Dr. Washington M. Taylor	145	(4)
Appendix B Sermons by Dr. Gardner C. Taylor	149	(34)
Notes	183	(30)
Bibliography	213