Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Describe the impact of the gospel in private and social dimensions

• Trace the influence of African believers throughout church history

• Identify areas where reformation can revitalize the modern African-American church

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: From Africa to America

• Africans in Scripture and Early Church History

• The African Church under Slavery

• The Early American Experience

• Theological Development among African-Americans

• Life Concerns

• Southern Antebellum African-American Theology

• Resistance to Oppression

• Characteristics of Resistance

• The Slaves and Christianity-ism

• Central Themes in the African-American Experience

Unit 2: Phases of African-American Church Development

• The Peanut Gallery Phase

• The Soul Dynamic

• The Plantation Phase

• Slave Revolts

• The Indigenous Phase

• Indigenous African-American Churches (Part 1)

• Indigenous African-American Churches (Part 2)

• Indigenous African-American Churches (Part 3)

Unit 3: Black Missions

• Theological and Missional Developments

• Divine Significance

• Black Missionaries Not from America

• America’s First Missionary

• Nineteenth-Century African-American Missionaries

• African-American Theologians of the Antebellum North (Part 1)

• African-American Theologians of the Antebellum North (Part 2)

• African-American Theologians of the Antebellum North (Part 3)

• Christianity, Commerce, and Civilization

Unit 4: Before and After the Civil War

• Events Leading up to the Civil War (Part 1)

• Events Leading up to the Civil War (Part 2)

• The African-American Church after the Civil War

• African-American Church Growth

• Economic Development in the African-American Church

• The End of Reconstruction in the South

• The Industrial Revolution in the North

• The Consolidation of Colonialism in Africa

• The Marginalization and Expulsion of Black Missionaries

• Effects of the Three Great Traumas on the African-American Church

• Attempts to Fill the Theological Vacuum

• The White Church at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Unit 5: The Twentieth Century

• Approaches to Theology

• The Window of Theology

• Pentecostalism (Part 1)

• Pentecostalism (Part 2)

• The Diminishing Prophetic Voice of the African-American Church

• Two Great African-American Migrations

• Challenges that Arose from the Great Migrations

• The Urban Church

• The Separational and Sociological Church Models

• The Associational Church Model

• Nontraditional Church Models (Part 1)

• Nontraditional Church Models (Part 2)

Unit 6: The Civil Rights Movement

• The Struggle for Civil Rights

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• What Made the Civil Rights Movement Effective

• The Peak of the Civil Rights Movement

• A Dysfunctional Bible-Believing Church

• Civil Rights and the Gospel

Unit 7: African-American Cults

• Christian Cults

• The Black Jews

• The Moorish Temple of Science

• The Temple of Islam

• The Nation of Islam

Unit 8: Current Challenges and New Models

• Today’s African-American Cultural Crisis (Part 1)

• Today’s African-American Cultural Crisis (Part 2)

• Disconnected Generations

• Developing an Authentic African-American Theology

• Opportunities for Ministry

• The Dominion Church Model

• Discipleship

• Kinship Compassion

• What a Reformation Would Look Like

Details

• Title: CS251 History and Theology of the African American Church

• Instructor: Carl Ellis

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2016

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 7