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TextA dialogue between a predestinarian and his friend
Wesley, John, 1703-1791Summary: A dialogue on predestination.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightSummary: A dialogue on predestination. -
TextAmerica tomorrow : what Baptists are doing for the child life of the nation
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TextTrabelin' on : the slave journey to an Afro-Baptist faith
Sobel, MechalMechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.Date Issued or PublishedCopyrightMechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.