The African American churches and ecumenism World Council of Churches Additional Author Watley, William D. Additional Author mixed material bibliography Geneva WCC Publications 1993 monographic en English

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xi, 69 p. ; 21 cm. What anchored their souls in trouble, stabilized their psyche, kept their hearts from drinking the bile of hatred and put a heaven in their view even as they laboured in the midst of hellish realities?" William Watley says there can be only one answer: the African American religious enterprise and its major institutional embodiment, the African American churches "the independent indigenous institutions of a 'third-world people in a first-world context.'" Here is an informed and popularly written portrait of these churches, focussing on the seven so-called historic black churches three Methodist, three Baptist, and one Pentecostal and depict-ing their worship life, international mission, theological enterprise, and ecumenical relationships. Although the total U.S. membership of these churches is nearly 22 million, they are often misunderstood in their own country and little known outside it. This book is aimed at correcting that ignorance and thus enriching global ecumenical understanding. African Americans African American churches Ecumenical movement Christian union 264.20802807119 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 264.2 Wat s E07000716 Non Fiction 264.2 Wat s Singing_the_Lord%27s_Song_in_a_Strange_Land.jpg 18525 1993-10-12 00:00:00 2026-03-27 17:16:48 machine generated