John Jasper The Unmatched Black Philosopher And Preacher Annotated
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Author | : William Hatcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
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ISBN | : 9781514211410 |
This book is about an extraordinary black preacher. He began to preach the gospel as a slave in Virginia. About a half of his preaching career was as a slave and about half was as a free man. He had no formal education or seminary training, but was legendary in his time. He often drew large crowds to his meetings of both black and white folk. Governors, judges, legislators, and "learned" white ministers were greatly moved by the power of Jasper's preaching. The Sixth Mount Zion Church in Richmond, Virginia stands to this day as a memorial to John Jasper, and nearby is his grave which is marked by a splendid monument. This book was written by Rev. William E. Hatcher, who heard about Jasper and went to hear him preach out of curiosity. He went back again and again and continued going for twenty years, forging a close friendship with the black preacher. It has been erroneously reported on a liberal state university website that Hatcher only heard Jasper preach one time. There is abundant proof to the contrary. Rev. Hatcher did not at once sit down to write a book about John Jasper; rather this book developed over the years of their friendship and is taken in a great part from Hatcher's journal observations of the friend he so much admired. According to Walter Bowie, Jr., a modern-day Baptist pastor, "The reflections and insights of this book give us a rare view of race relationships in the South both during and after slavery. There is a hint that race relations were not all negative as suggested by much contemporary literature." Although John Jasper was fully capable of speaking standard English, his most poetic and moving orations and sermons were delivered in the old Virginia slave dialect. To have translated these into standard English would have been an injustice to the genius of Jasper, and the beauty and poignancy of the sermons would lose much in the translation. Therefore they have been presented as they were preached. However, the editor, realizing that as time passes this old Virginia dialect is becoming archaic and hard for many, especially those outside the American South, to understand, has made the effort to explain those expressions and dialect which might frustrate the modern reader. Great care has been taken to keep these to a minimum and it is hoped that the annotations add to the understanding and appreciation of the orations and brilliance of John Jasper.
Author | : William Eldridge Hatcher |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : African American Baptists |
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Author | : Hatcher William E. |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1901 |
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ISBN | : 9780259664024 |
Author | : William Eldridge Hatcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Baptists |
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Author | : William E. Hatcher LL D |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-11-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781946640871 |
The Renowned preacher John Jasper, is still highly respected in the current day.
Author | : William E Hatcher |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498187596 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
Author | : W. Hatcher |
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Release | : 1972-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780849004520 |
Author | : Kenyatta R. Gilbert |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451412533 |
The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching is a constructive effort to examine the historical contributions of African American preaching, the challenges it faces today, and how it might become a renewed source of healing and strength for at-risk communities and churches. --from publisher description
Author | : Hortense J. Spillers |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2003-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226769790 |
Black, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past twenty years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and extending through her turn to cultural studies in the 1990s, these essays display her passionate commitment to reading as a fundamentally political act-one pivotal to rewriting the humanist project. Spillers is best known for her race-centered revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the relationships between race and gender. She has also given literary criticism some of its most powerful readings of individual authors, represented here in seminal essays on Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and William Faulkner. Ultimately, the essays collected in Black, White, and in Color all share Spillers's signature style: heady, eclectic, and astonishingly productive of new ideas. Anyone interested in African American culture and literature will want to read them.
Author | : James Robert Saunders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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In African American culture the preacher has traditionally held many roles: minister of faith, orator, politician, idealist, and most importantly, leader. But the preacher was also traditionally male, and in many ways this advanced the perception that African American women were incapable of questioning the authority of black men. Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, and Terry McMillan wrote of flawed African American preachers, empowering their female characters by exposing the notion of the black preacher as beyond reproach. The writings of these five women warn African American women--and society as a whole--of the power of the religious functionaries who insist that the self must be virtually obliterated in order for salvation to be attained.