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The forgotten prophet

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American prophetic tradition

by Andre E. Johnson

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Description

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This book is a study of the prophetic rhetoric of African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop Henry McNeal Turner. By locating Turner within the African American prophetic tradition, Johnson examines how Bishop Turner adopted a prophetic persona and became a leading social activist of the late nineteenth century.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.

  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Controlled discovery queries from gegnir matched “Prophecy”. Retained metadata contains “prophetic” in the subtitle, “prophetic” in the description, “Prophecy” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Prophecy”· via Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue
    • “prophetic”· in subtitle
    • “prophetic”· in description
    • “Prophecy”· in subject
    • “prophetic”· in edition subtitle
    • “Prophecy”· in edition notes

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Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American prophetic tradition

Gegnir Icelandic union-catalog record

1 online resource (134 p.); Description based upon print version of record; Dewey classification: 287/.8092; Includes bibliographical references and index; Publication place: Lanham, MD; The Forgotten Prophet; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One "Let By-Gones be By-Gones": Emancipation and Turner's Celebratory Prophecy; Chapter Two "Hurling Thunderbolts" and "Fighting the Devil with Fire": Turner's Prophetic Disputation; Chapter Three "To Seek Other Quarters": Turner's Mission-Oriented Prophecy; Chapter Four "No Future for the Negro": Turner's Pessimistic Prophecy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

c2012Lexington BooksEnglish
  • 9798765183816
  • 0739178547
  • 1283639238
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