![]() There is an overwhelming amount of detail about the factional rifts and theological disputes among denominations and among leaders from Billy Graham to Rick Warren. This book is old-fashioned, top-down history written about the white Protestant church leaders. Clearly the African-American churches supplied the leadership, members and, most importantly, the meeting houses for the movement that destroyed legal segregation, the most important social issue of the 1960s.Ī second criticism, which is more serious, concerns Fitzgerald’s framework. But didn’t these churches include the 186,000 African-American troops who fought for the Union in the Civil War? A century later, Fitzgerald thinks the Southern white evangelical churches played a limited role in the civil rights movement. The author also questions whether pre-Civil War free African-American churches had wide influence in the abolitionist movement. ![]() First, Fitzgerald makes a major mistake in her explanation of why she did not include African-American churches although “some denominations identify as evangelical, because of their history, their religious traditions are not the same as those of white evangelicals.” Oh, really! Show me an African-American church that is non-evangelical with a service that is primarily liturgical. ![]()
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