Blow the Trumpet in Zion!: Global Vision and Action for the Twenty-First-Century Black Church

This volume's contributors - dynamic and progressive African American church leaders - advocate theprophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and evangelismin support of community and economic development, ministerial and lay leadership, and enhancement of churchlife.

Among the writers are Charles G. Adams, Randall C. Bailey, James H. Cone, James A. Forbes, Jacquelyn Grant, OberyHendricks, Asa G. Hilliard, Dwight N. Hopkins, CecilMurray, and Gayraud Wilmore. All were presentersin 2004 at the first Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, established to reinvigorate the social justice agenda of America's black churches.

Author: Frederick D. Haynes, Jeremiah A. Wright
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 12/30/2004
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.56w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780800637125

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 05/17/2005 pg. 22
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2005 pg. 53
Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 102

About the Author
Carruthers, Iva E.: -

Iva E. Carruthers is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. She is the author of The Church and Reparations (2001).

Haynes, Frederick D., III: - Frederick D. Haynes III is Senior Pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas and Executive Secretary of the Evangelism Board of the National Baptist Convention.

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