Holiness and Worldliness

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Holiness and Worldliness "
Awet Andemicael

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1080877
Doc. No	:	LA124506
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700747-03804003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Awet Andemicael
Title & Author	:	Holiness and Worldliness [Article]\ Awet Andemicael
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Pneuma
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	38/4
Page No	:	394–410
Abstract	:	What was truly distinctive about the black Gospel music style of the Sanctified Church was its extensive use of musical instruments previously associated with “the world.” Yet, this fact presents a theological conundrum. The very churches that were so enthusiastically “embracing” the Gospel style were, at the same time, ardently emphasizing strict moral living and the repudiation of all things carnal. In this article, I suggest lines of theological reasoning that may have informed early black Holiness and pentecostal Christians in their widespread liturgical use of the Gospel style. Drawing on primary source material from COGIC founding Bishop Charles Mason, I expand Lawrence Levine’s model of the relationship between early black Sanctified churches and the secular black musical world and argue that a more nuanced conception of the Christ-world relation than is generally assumed may have undergirded Sanctified development of early Gospel music. What was truly distinctive about the black Gospel music style of the Sanctified Church was its extensive use of musical instruments previously associated with “the world.” Yet, this fact presents a theological conundrum. The very churches that were so enthusiastically “embracing” the Gospel style were, at the same time, ardently emphasizing strict moral living and the repudiation of all things carnal. In this article, I suggest lines of theological reasoning that may have informed early black Holiness and pentecostal Christians in their widespread liturgical use of the Gospel style. Drawing on primary source material from COGIC founding Bishop Charles Mason, I expand Lawrence Levine’s model of the relationship between early black Sanctified churches and the secular black musical world and argue that a more nuanced conception of the Christ-world relation than is generally assumed may have undergirded Sanctified development of early Gospel music.
Descriptor	:	black Gospel music
Descriptor	:	Charles Mason
Descriptor	:	dance
Descriptor	:	holiness and worldliness
Descriptor	:	Holy Spirit
Descriptor	:	instrumental music
Descriptor	:	sacred and secular
Descriptor	:	Sanctified Church
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700747-03804003‬