THESIS: The observation shows the history of faith in the African Americans. An individual only has to examine the needs of the black church to understand that they have a long history in responding to the religious, educational, social, political and economic concerns and needs in the communities Since the arrival of African Americans in America, blacks have always had experience that differs amongst each other. African Americans have had to fake a character out of what has been passed to them as facts about their true selves. The African American church has served as one of the institutions that were formed in order to aid blacks culturally, spiritually and economically (Moyd). Through oppression and subjection many slaves found ways
They are going to be learning a song with a really difficult guitar lead. The musician was making a joke about who they would get to play that part (as if his talents weren’t suitable). Though he was joking, the worship leader saw the opportunity to remind him of the greatness of his offering. He told him not to learn the other musician’s “licks”, but to make the offering his own. On Sunday mornings he is the only one in the entire room that has been chosen to play lead guitar.
KING’S LETTER FORM BIRMINGHAM JAIL Questions for Discussion 1. Martin Luther King writes as a member of several communities, some overlapping, some in conflict. What are they? Focusing on two or three, explain how he defines himself within each. The communities are the church and the community itself.
Introduction John Hammett is the Associate Dean of Theological Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he is also a professor of Systematic Theology and where he earned his Doctor of Ministry. He has also received a Bachelor’s of Arts from Duke University, a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In his book, “Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches: A Contemporary Ecclesiology”, John Hammett looks at the nature and marks of the church, as laid out in scripture. He emphasizes
Dear Javina Ramsey, Daughter this is your father! Reverend Preach Ramsey, how dare you even think of mixing blues with gospel, over spiritual music. Let me remind of our family history. Your mother and I escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad. When we sang we did not have blues in our voices.
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery February 14, 1818. He spent most of his slave years in Maryland and Virginia. As a child an un-aware slave mistress made the “mistake” of teaching him to read. This opened to him a wide window of awareness and opportunity. He soon began to seek more and more education and to use his abilities to help teach other slaves to read from bible studies.
African Dance is important to Africa to show many cultural differences in musical and movement styles. These dances must be viewed in close connection with African music, as many African languages have no word to define music. They mostly dance in tribes or worshiping gods. These dances teach social patterns and values and help people work, mature, praise or criticize members of the community while celebrating festivals and funerals, competing, reciting history, proverbs and poetry, and to encounter gods. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_dance ) Traditional African Dance mostly used the African voice instead of the more current drums and other instruments.
Three Missionary Journeys Paul’s ministry after Christ death and resurrection was filled with travels and meeting with people all over the land of that time. Today we call these types of people missionaries, back then it really was Paul just following what Christ asked him to do. Paul was and is one of the most influential poets of the Bible. In this essay we will focus on the three major travel journeys that Paul took to plant churches and reach the Gentiles of the day. The three major journeys that Paul took we will split up by calling them Paul’s first missionary trip, his second missionary trip and finally his third missionary trip.
Musical History: The slaves working in the cotton fields and plantations would sing chants to tell stories about their lives, these stories were most commonly about sadness, loneliness, sorrow and tragedy. As the slaves sung these chants while working, the chants and songs were mostly vocal and did not have a lot of instrumental accompaniment. Sometimes the slaves would use instruments to accompany their songs when the sung outside of work. A lot of these chants were improvised by the plantation workers. Musical Characteristics: Blues Music is mostly played in the 4/4 time signature.
Marriage, it goes without saying is very critical in African society. Since it is forbidden in Catholicism for pastors and bishops to marry, the Catholic Church in particular did not have much success in converting many Africans to their religion during these earlier centuries. The Protestant Church had more success in converting Africans who then became clergy because it allowed for monogamous marriages by the clergy. Interestingly, many African churches identified themselves as Protestant yet permitted their priests and bishops to marry more than one wife, a practice that is still common today. These are the churches that I referred to earlier as practicing Africanized forms of Christianity.