Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Black Consciousness

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" Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Black Consciousness "
Dale M. Coulter

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079673
Doc. No	:	LA123302
Call No	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02501010‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Dale M. Coulter
Title & Author	:	Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Black Consciousness [Article]\ Dale M. Coulter
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	25/1
Page No	:	74–89
Abstract	:	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. 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.
Descriptor	:	black consciousness
Descriptor	:	Charles H. Mason
Descriptor	:	Ethiopianism
Descriptor	:	Sanctified church
Descriptor	:	slave religion
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02501010‬