Research Catalog

Title

Witness : two hundred years of African-American faith and practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York / Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie, Kevin McGruder.

Author

McNeil, Genna Rae

Publication

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roberson, Houston Bryan
• Dixie, Quinton Hosford
• McGruder, Kevin, 1957-

Description

xii, 708 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"This detailed history of the famous Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York City, begins with its organization in 1809 and continues through its relocations, its famous senior pastors, and its many crises and triumphs, up to the present. Considered the largest Protestant congregation in the United States during the pre-megachurch 1930s, this church plays a very important part in the history of New York City." -- Publisher's website.

Subjects

• Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.) History
• New York (N.Y.) > Church history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"Upon this rock" -- Gathered in Jesus' name -- "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us, " 1901-1908 -- "Forward in a larger service" : Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1908-1937 -- Toward a new earth : Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Abyssinian Baptist Church, and prophetic Christianity, 1931-1943 -- "Keep the faith!" Abyssinian Baptist Church, the church of the masses, 1944-1972 -- "Higher ground": Samuel DeWitt Proctor and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1972-1989 -- "A calling to fulfill" : Calvin O. Butts III -- "To serve this present age" -- Bicentennial photograph gallery -- Afterwords. The challenge of the prophetic witness in the twenty-first century / Cornel West -- Building on connections, advancing a frontier : women and urban ministry / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Appendixes -- A reflection : the role of the photographic archive in the Abyssinian Baptist Church / Deborah Willis -- Photograph gallery : Abyssinian and its community.

Call Number

Sc E 14-1336

ISBN

• 9780802863416 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0802863418 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013001748

OCLC

876591183

Author

McNeil, Genna Rae, author.

Title

Witness : two hundred years of African-American faith and practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York / Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie, Kevin McGruder.

Publisher

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Roberson, Houston Bryan, author.

Dixie, Quinton Hosford, author.

McGruder, Kevin, 1957- author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 14-1336