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Description
This groundbreaking work draws upon congregational histories and other primary sources to chronicle for the first time the story of African American Churches of Christ in Texas. Emerging out of the nineteenth-century Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, the African American churches inherited from their white mentors both a Biblicist theology and a feisty spirit. Their “fight” was against religious error and in support of the true church as they understood it. Out of that “fight” emerged a growing network of congregations that by the mid-twentieth century reached throughout Texas. This book lifts out of obscurity the African American Christians who joined Ramsey’s “fight …out West” and who made black Churches of Christ in Texas what they are today.
ISBN
9780891128625
Publication Date
2008
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Churches of Christ--History.
Publisher
Abilene Christian University Press
City
Abilene, TX
Disciplines
Christian Denominations and Sects | History of Christianity
Recommended Citation
Robinson, Edward J., "The Fight is on in Texas: A History of African American Churches of Christ in the Lone Star State, 1865-2000" (2008). ACU Brown Library Monograph Series. .
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/acu_library_books/29
Comments
This open access ebook is made possible with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and as part of the National Endowment of the Humanities Open Book program.