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Preaching with Sacred Fire An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present

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ISBN-10: 039305831X

ISBN-13: 9780393058314

Edition: N/A

Authors: Martha Simmons, Frank A. Thomas, Gardner C. Taylor

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One hundred sermons that display the painful, yet victorious, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America. Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas, this generation's chroniclers of black preaching and the publisher and CEO, respectively, of the journal The African American Pulpit, have done significant research to put together this comprehensive and groundbreaking volume of sermons by men and women, from the earliest recorded 350 years ago up through today. Employing poetic language, moving metaphors, and thrilling syncopations, these sermons make plain the striving toward God of an inspired people and paint a portrait of their life in slavery, their fight for freedom, the…    
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Book details

List price: $49.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/16/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 992
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English

Martha Simmons is the editor of Preaching on the Brink and 9.11.01: African American Leaders Respond to an American Tragedy. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Frank Anthony Thomas has been an ordained minister and pastor for 26 years. He currently serves as the Senior Pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee.