Nathan Bangs: An Itinerant Ministry In Canada

After reading all the passages contained in “The Black Church” by Marilyn Mellows I quickly decided to write about “Origins and Abolition”. Perhaps, it was the fact that each of the aforementioned passages included historical references to Philadelphia. I am always interested in the role that Philadelphia played in shaping the course of African American history. These passages illuminate the individuals that charted new paths as slaves persevered and fought defiantly as they marched towards freedom. Origins, is a brief but succinct description that outlines the plight of Africans that departed their kingdoms on the coastline of Congo and arrived in Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.

Before he became a pastor he was going to play baseball at Lynchburg College, but he decided that he wanted to transfer and attended Baptist Bible College. While he was there he studied to become a preacher. This foreshadows him creating Liberty University, Lynchburg Christian Academy, and Thomas Road Baptist Church due to how much he loved religion. He had a big passion to become

The Reb and Pastor Henry both were strongly committed to their religious doctrines and spent a great deal of their lives contributing to the well beings of others. Their stories began fairly similar, young men that strived for greatness, but came in contact with abounding obstacles in life . Pastor Henry grew up in an unstable home environment. The importance of school and God wasn’t reinforced constantly, but the use of drugs instantaneously became a way of life. During his adolescence, he developed a strong love for God and took him as his savior at the age of twelve, but then took a path in his teenage years that led him to drugs and violence.

He converted to Methodism after being a soldier in the War of 1812 and protested the rights of Native Americans. In 1825 Apess was signed to a Methodist leadership where he traveled to many places to minister to Native Americans and mixed races. Four years later his autobiography was published that was related to his life. He wrote many other books that related to prejudice people against the Native Americans. Apess new that Christ died for everyone no matter the skin color or the age of someone.

Significant References in Fahrenheit 451 As Dave Attell once said, “You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they’re both on fire-they’re exactly alike.” Attell’s quote ties in perfectly with Fahrenheit 451 regarding the novel’s futuristic society. The government’s goal is to make everyone equal and create overall happiness by making books illegal and disposing of all the remaining books through the rise of fire.

William R. Estep was a family man as well as a highly regarded professor of church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for 40 years. He was a prominent church historian in the Southern Baptist circle and authored many works on church, Baptist, and Anabaptist history such as Anabaptist Beginnings, Renaissance and Reformation, and Whole Gospel Whole World. He has also served as a pastor in several churches in Texas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma as well as taught at Baptist seminaries across the world including nations such as Canada and Columbia. The number of years he has researched, taught, and lived serve as the authority that he has to write about the early Anabaptist history.

What is fundamentalism? Essentially, it is an adherence to the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to life and teaching. In his book, Fundamentalism and American Culture, George M. Marsden attacks the daunting question of “How has the fundamentalist movement managed to resist the pressures of the scientific community and the draw of modern popular culture to hold on to their ultra-conservative Christian views?” Not only does this History textbook answer that pressing question, but it also tells the incredible, encouraging tale of how Christian principles CAN survive in a godless world. From the first chapter, Marsden notes fundamentalism’s steady march through American history.

Theologically conservative leaders from United Methodist Church have formed a group within the denomination known as Wesleyan Covenant Association. The organization is endorsed by around 50 ministerial and lay leaders, and theologians. The WCA will convey its first gathering in Chicago on October 7 to promote the goals of scriptural Christianity and to welcome new members.

Old practices became a thing of the past with the fast-paced city drawing people into a new life. This worried religious people, hoping that their attendees wouldn’t leave them. Many felt alienated from city life and modernization. This led to direct conflicts against the teaching of science and evolution in schools. This can be seen through the Scopes Trial fiasco of 1925, where fundamentalisms tried putting a teacher in Tennessee behind bars for teaching such things.

According to definition, reinvention is to invent again, remodel, or revive something that already exists. Between the 16th and 19th centuries Americans has embraced the idea of reinvention through their determination to change the religion and government of their time. Since the development of the American Colonies, Americans, or in this case colonist, embraced the character of reinvention and applied it to religion. They took the ideas from Martin Luther’s 1517

A founding father, scientist, author, inventor, diplomat and "First American" along with many other things Benjamin Franklin was a very well-known man. Gordon S. Wood a professor of History Emeritus at Brown University, and recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for history for the Radicalism of The American Revolution is also the author of "The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. " A book written to describe many events that Franklin took part in or things that happened to him that people may not know of. Although the book is very factual, the substantial vocabulary and lengthiness of the book itself make it very hard to maintain focus. Wood is known for his background in teaching and education of history.

(Erickson) The beliefs Emerson held closely relate to the beliefs of other Southern Christians who found themselves similarly influenced by the teachings of Southern ministers. Within the South, Christianity held enormous influence. Religious leaders “buttressed” Southern support of the Confederate cause by “reminding their countrymen of the role that divine intervention played in all things.” (Wesley)

What is the purpose and mission of universal schooling? Why are philanthropic white Northern reformers’ supportive of African-Americans’ goals of literacy and universal education? How can historians reconcile the educational advancement of African-Americans with their status as second-class citizens throughout the Eras of Reconstruction and Jim Crow? In The Education of Blacks in the South (1988), James Anderson explores the race, labor, and education questions through the lens of black educational philosophy. Anderson challenges the prevailing narrative that universal public education emerged from white Northern missionaries dedicated to civilizing newly emancipated Negroes in the South.

Stanley Jones contains an innumerable amount of lessons applicable to missiology. (1) His obedience to the call of God on his life and promptings of the Holy Spirit remains truly admirable. (2) Jones' also set a precedent of openly sharing the Gospel with people of other religions without watering-down the truth. This lesson has increasingly become more relevant in the current era that celebrates relative truth. (3) Next, he contributed a legacy of authentic Christianity.

The First Great Awakening was brought over to America from Europe in the early 1700’s, which brought Pietism, Enlightenment and Protestant faith. The Protestant faith was established in the United States during the colonial era with the first Great Awakening and grew after the War of 1812. Men were mostly of the hierarchy till the roles of the women transitioned through the war. A while later, the Second Great Awakening increased the churches to a lucrative Christian society in which preached spiritual equality and could democratically govern themselves within a hierarchy (Henretta). During the Second Great Awakening there was a substantial amount of importance for religious women in the church as they searched for a social, political and cultural