MY BELOVED COMMUNITY : Sermons, Speeches, and Lectures - Softcover

Herber D Daughtry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865435901 ISBN 13: 9780865435902

Publisher: AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 2003

Synopsis

Well-known activist minister Reverend Herbert D. Daughtry, Sr., has, throughout his life, intellectually and practically confronted the challenges of deepening faith in a personal God and expressing that faith in political, historical and collective ways. The sermons, speeches and lectures collected here address related issues, among them: merging race consciousness with religious conviction; the function of Christianity in a black community; and the Africanness - as well as the universality - of Christianity.

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Synopsis

From his childhood in segregated Georgia to his current ministry, Daughtry has intellectually and practically confronted the challenges of deepening faith in a personal God and expressing that faith collectively in a difficult political and historical context. How can one simultaneously love one's people and, in the face of racial discrimination and oppression, love the world? The sermons, speeches, and lectures collected in this volume, composed over a number of years address, among related issues: - Merging race consciousness with religious conviction. - The potentially binding and empowering function of Christianity in a black community where it is often viewed as an oppressive tool used to maintain black subservience. - How the spirit of communal faith is intensely African yet also a universal strength. These writings constitute a timely and powerful statement of racial identity and communal, spiritual living, delivered in Daughtry's inimitable fashion.

Edition details

• Publisher: AFRICA WORLD PRESS
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865435901
• ISBN 13: 9780865435902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190