The Theology of Richard Allen’s Musical Worship

2021 ◽  
pp. 260-292
Author(s):  
Awet Andemicael
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Protest Songs ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Heaven And Earth

This chapter examines the role music may have played in Bishop Richard Allen’s struggle for African-American liberation from slavery, and empowerment as full participants in church and state affairs. It begins with a broad survey of music in American and British abolitionist efforts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including two hymns of Allen’s own composition, to provide context for Allen’s engagement with music. In comparison to such protest songs, the hymns Allen selected for his hymnbooks were not overtly political. Nevertheless, the theology of music they represented resonated with socio-political significance, coalescing around three key themes: musical worship as (a) a means for conversion and a telos for the Christian life; (b) a bridge between heaven and earth; and (c) a reflection of, and aide to, the formation of community and ecclesial unity.

Edmund Burke, Dissent and Church and State

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

This chapter examines Edmund Burke’s attitude towards Protestant dissenters, particularly the more radical or rational ones who were prominent in the late eighteenth century, as a way of understanding his changing attitude towards the Church of England and state. The Dissenters who attracted Burke’s attention were those who were interested in extending the terms of toleration both for ministers and for their laity. Initially Burke supported their aspirations, but from about 1780 things began to change. The catalyst for Burke’s emergence as leader of those who feared that revolution abroad might become a distemper at home was Richard Price’s Discourse on Love of Our Country. The chapter analyses how Burke moved from advocating toleration for Dissenters to become a staunch defender of establishment as to have ‘un-Whigged’ himself. It also considers the debate on the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts as well as Burke’s attitude towards Church–state relations.

Protest Songs from the Textile Mills and Coalfields

2020 ◽  
pp. 176-180
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Coal Dust ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Southern Appalachians ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Textile Mills ◽  
Protest Songs ◽  
Traditional Ballads ◽  
A Site

Protest songs have sustained strikers on picket lines, memorialized disasters, galvanized support for unions, sparked folk revivals, and established Appalachia in the national consciousness as a site of labor struggle. In Coal Dust on the Fiddle (1943), a collection of songs from the bituminous coal mines, George Korson explains that the folk songs of immigrant miners, traditional ballads of the Southern Appalachians, and African American spirituals combined in music that documented and commemorated life in the mines....

Transformed Religion and a Proliferation of Churches

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Robert Reed
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Christian Science ◽  
Black Clergy ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Black Agency

The roles of religion and accompanying church life in the modern age remained one of the major wellsprings of black agency. It was within these spheres that E. Franklin Frazier observed a type of religious freedom and expression that permeated the African American class and cultural spectrum. Blacks attended religious services and practiced a variety of beliefs ranging from Christian Science teaching to genuine Islam to elevated Baha'ism to black Judaism to various esoteric strains of Christianity. This chapter covers this transformation, which also witnessed the city's black clergy bridging the constitutional gap between church and state in a most dramatic fashion.

scholarly journals Schipperen tussen twee rijken: Q en het Romeinse gezag

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R.C. Grundeken
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Imperial Cult ◽  
The Third ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Compromising between two powers: Q and the Roman Empire. The study underlying this article investigated the attitude of Sayings Source Q towards the Roman authorities and their representatives. It primarily aimed at contributing to scholarly discussions on the relationships between early Christianity and the Roman Empire, but it also attempted to put the research in a broader context of present-day discussions on the issue of ‘church and state’. The first part of the study dealt with Q’s views on the government. The second part studied Q’s views on the emperor cult. The third and final part aimed at putting Q’s views on the authorities and on the veneration of the emperor in the right context. It concluded that Q compromises between idealism and realism. Its attitude towards the government is quite hostile. It portrays worldly power as demonic (Q 4:5–6; 11:18, 20), it regards God as the only true Lord of heaven and earth (Q 10:21) and rejects the legitimacy of the imperial cult (Q 4:5–8). It fully focuses on the completion of the kingdom of God (Q 6:20; 7:28; 10:9; 11:2b). Yet, as a relatively small community (Q 10:2), the Q people seem to have realised that there was no point in standing up against the Roman authorities and their representatives. Q’s propagated views on Roman power are not characterised by active resistance, but by passive dissidence (Q 6:22–23, 27–32; 12:4–5). Within the context of the Roman Empire, it was better to be a realist than a revolutionist.

Singing Abolition

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-146
Author(s):  
J. R. Oldfield
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Frederick Douglass ◽  
William Wells Brown ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Protest Songs ◽  
The Uk

This Chapter deals with a hitherto neglected aspect of anti-slavery opinion building, namely the role of anti-slavery songs. Hundreds of these songs – really abolitionist poems set to popular melodies -- were produced during the nineteenth century, on topics as diverse as the slave experience and contemporary public events. In essence, these were protest songs, designed to inform and inspire. The Chapter also looks at the emergence of anti-slavery performers, chief among them the Hutchinson Family Singers from New Hampshire, who electrified audiences during the 1840s with their performances. In 1846, the Hutchinsons visited Britain where they met with a different reception, their peculiar brand of musical advocacy alienating some section of the British public. The chapter analyses the reasons for this ‘failure’, while concluding with a discussion of spirituals (slave songs) as performed by African American visitors to the UK, among them Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown.

African American Islam

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Berg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
American Islam ◽  
Moorish Science

The first Muslims arrived in the American colonies and later in the United States as African slaves. Although a few and noteworthy Muslim American slaves left written records of their lives, Islam was largely extinguished by the white slave owners. Sectarian and racial forms of Islam were introduced into the United States, particularly within urban African American communities, by Ahmadiyya missionaries and the Moorish Science Temple. The rise of the Nation of Islam under Wali Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad and its bifurcation under the latter’s son, Warith Deen Mohammed, and Louis Farrakhan deserve special attention, as do the initial appeal of the Nation of Islam’s racial formulation of Islam and, decades later, the willingness of most of its members to move to Sunni orthodoxy after Elijah Muhammad’s death. The second major, though not entirely separate, strand of Islam in the United States, though often interacting or competing with the first, comes from Muslim immigrants. This group brings unique issues, such as living in a largely Christian society, competing with the Nation of Islam, refuting stereotypes in the media and popular culture, finding a political voice, and coping with post-9/11 Islamophobia, all leading to the consideration of the prospects for a uniquely “American Islam” that reflects U.S. pluralism and (supposed) separation of “church and state.”

scholarly journals Kehadiran Tuhan di Tengah Umat-Nya: Dari Penciptaan ke Penciptaan yang Baru

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Martus Adinugraha Maleachi ◽  
Hendra Yohanes
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church

Di dalam studi dan teologi biblika, pertanyaan yang didiskusikan sampai dewasa ini adalah apakah tema atau motif Alkitab yang dapat mempersatukan alur cerita dari PL sampai PB? Artikel ini mengusulkan motif kehadiran Tuhan sebagai jawabannya, yakni kehadiran Allah yang berdiam di antara umat-Nya. Tuhan yang rindu untuk dekat dengan umat-Nya dengan menyatakan kehadiran di tempat-tempat kudus di sepanjang catatan Alkitab. Dengan menggunakan studi kata, studi intertekstual dalam kanon Alkitab, dan studi ekstrabiblika; artikel ini menunjukkan bahwa kehadiran-Nya dipusatkan di tempat-tempat kudus yang didirikan-Nya di dalam dunia ini mulai dari Taman Eden pada penciptaan yang pertama, Kemah Suci, Bait Allah, gereja, sampai kepada penciptaan langit dan bumi yang baru. Artikel ini bertujuan menyajikan suatu gambaran alkitabiah tentang kehadiran Allah di tengah-tengah umat-Nya dan implikasinya bagi kehidupan Kristiani. In biblical studies and biblical theology, a central question still discussed until today is the following: what theme or motif can unify the biblical storyline from OT to NT? This article proposes that the motif of the presence of God, who indwells among His people, as the answer. God, who desires to be near to His people, reveals His presence in holy places across biblical accounts. By using word studies, intertextual studies in the canonical bible, and extrabiblical studies, this article demonstrates that God's revealing of His presence focused in holy places that He established in this world, began from the Garden of Eden in the first creation and extended through the Tabernacle, the Temple, the Church, to the creation of the new heaven and earth. The purpose of this article is to present a biblical overview of the presence of God among His people and its implications for the Christian life.

scholarly journals Kuyper’s Spirituality in Its Calvin-Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-545
Author(s):  
Willem van Vlastuin
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Union With Christ ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Mystical Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Correct Estimation ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Abstract This article explores Abraham Kuyper’s spirituality by comparing it to that of John Calvin. Calvin’s Institutes exhibits three dimensions of his spirituality in the context of the mystical union with Christ, namely, the affective character of this union, its effects and its significance for a correct estimation of the world. By comparison, Kuyper put a greater emphasis on the importance of the affections in mystical union because he gives more weight to the regenerated life. This focus also coheres with Kuyper’s more optimistic approach to the Christian life, which contrasts with Calvin’s emphasis on the need for daily justification. In Kuyper’s approach the indwelling of the Spirit represents the union between heaven and earth, while Calvin stresses that God’s future kingdom is beyond the here and now.

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