Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1979), v-xii. Also see Long, Signifi cations ,
133–137.
- Carter, Race, 206. Also, see Long, Signifi cations , 9.
- Katie G. Cannon and Anthony B. Pinn, “Introduction,” in The Oxford
Handbook of African American Theology , ed. Katie G. Cannon and Anthony
B. Pinn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 1.
- Ibid., 2.
- Sylvester Johnson, “The African American Christian Tradition,” in The
Oxford Handbook of African American Theology , ed. Katie G. Cannon and
Anthony B. Pinn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 73.
- Jacobsen, Thinking in the Spirit , 262.
- Ibid. Italics added.
- Douglas Jacobsen, ed., A Reader in Pentecostal Theology: Voices From the
First Generation (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006), 15.
- Vinson Synan, The Century of Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and
Charismatic Renewal, 1901–2001 (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2001),
62.
- Jl 2:28 ESV.
- James E. Turner, “Africana Studies and Epistemology: A Discourse in the
Sociology of Knowledge,” in Africana Studies: A Disciplinary Quest for
Both Theory and Method , ed. James L. Conyers, Jr. (Jefferson, NC:
McFarland & Company, 1997), 95–96.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From Birmingham City Jail,” in A
Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther
King, Jr. , ed. James M. Washington (New York: Harper Collins, 1986),
300.
- See Gustavo Gutíerrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and
Salvation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1988).
- Juan Luis Segundo, The Liberation of Theology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis,
1976), 75.
- Ibid.
- Josiah Ulysses Young, III, A Pan-African Theology: Providence and the
Legacies of the Ancestors (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1992), 17.
- Peter J. Paris, The Social Teaching of the Black Churches (Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1985), 10.
- Ibid., 11.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., 10–11.
- This remained the AME Church’s offi cial motto for over a century until
the Trinitarian and gender-inclusive current motto, “God Our Father,
Christ Our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Humankind Our
Family,” was adopted in 2008. See http://ame- church.com.
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