Black Consciousness and the Black Church: A Historical-Theological Interpretation

1970 ◽  
Vol 387 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Cone
Keyword(s):  
Black Church ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
Theological Interpretation

Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Black Consciousness

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Dale M. Coulter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
Historical Argument ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Global Vision

This article offers a historical argument that a cultural program existed among the Sanctified churches in the first half of the twentieth century. This cultural program cultivated a distinct form of black consciousness around three elements: 1) a rehabilitation of slave religion; 2) an embrace of Ethiopianism as a global vision of pan-Africanism; and 3) an effort at Black uplift through education. One can detect features of this consciousness among important figures like Charles H. Mason, Charles Price Jones, Blind Willie Johnson, and Mother Rosa Horn. With it’s distinctive fusion of Pentecostal ecstasy and Wesleyan holiness with the concerns of Sanctified churches, this cultural consciousness must be placed alongside other visions offered by persons such as W.E.B. Dubois as seeking to advance a theology addressing the concerns of the Black Church.

Features of Christian-Theological Interpretation of the Concept of Personality

2007 ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Yuliya Kostantynivna Nedzelska
Keyword(s):  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Individual

The concept of "personality" is multifaceted and multifaceted in its basis, and therefore, in science has always been a great difficulty in determining its essence and content. For example, in Antiquity, "personality" as such, dissolves in the concept of "society". There is no "human" yet, but there is a genus, a community, a people that are only quantitatively formed from the mass of different individuals, governed and subordinated to any one idea (custom, tribal or ethno-religious) espoused by this society. In other words, in such societies, the individual was not unique and unique; his personality (we understand - personality) was limited to the general, the collective. This is confirmed by the Jewish and early Christian texts.

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