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Apr 23, 2024
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CHS 530 - History and Theology of African American Traditions
This course provides a general introduction to the development of religious movements and institutions among people of African descent in the United States, with appropriate attention to related developments in Canada, Central American and South America. It outlines the development of racial denominationalism and ecclesiology, the emergence of a distinctive African-American and Pan-African theology, the changing roles of black ministers and lay people, womanist theology, the shifting changes in the meanings of the black church as a social goal and as a metaphor; and it highlights the swift and pronounced social changes in American culture and politics from the beginnings of the Atlantic slave trade to the election of Barack Obama, to the present. This course satisfies the requirement of The United Methodist Church for students preparing for ordained ministry. Church in Context elective.
3 Credits.
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