Black fire : one hundred years of African American Pentecostalism
Estrelda Alexander (Author)
Estrelda Alexander was raised "in an urban, black, working-class, oneness Pentecostal congregation in the 1950s and 1960s", but she knew little of her heritage and thought that all Christians worshiped and believed as she did. Much later she discovered that many Christians not only knew little of her heritage but considered it strange. Even today, most North Americans remain ignorant of black Pentecostalism. Black Fire remedies a lack of historical consciousness by recounting the story of African American Pentecostal origins and development
Print Book, English, 2011
IVP Academic, Downers Grove, Illinois, 2011
Church history
406 pages ; 23 cm
9780830825868, 083082586X
670478887
Introduction
"Every time I feel the Spirit": Pentecostal retentions from African spirituality
Saved and sanctified: The legacy of the nineteenth-century black holiness movement
The color line was washed away in the blood: William J. Seymour and the Azusa street revival
What hath God wrought: The rise of African American trinitarian pentacostal denominations
God and Christ are one: The rise and development of black oneness pentecostalism
Singing the Lord's song in a strange land: Blacks in white pentecostal denominations
If it wasn't for the women: Women's leadership in African American pentecostalism
I will do a new thing: African American neo-pentecostals and charismatic movements
Conclusion: Historical realities and theological challenges of African American pentecostalism into the twenty-first century