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Black Preaching: The Recovery of a Powerful Art is unavailable, but you can change that!

Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White--who are seeking to add power and vision to their sermons. Mitchell persuasively demonstrates that Black culture and preaching style are vital for the empowerment of Black congregations and have much to offer the preaching...

Baptists, brought a worship style and doctrine much more suited to Black temperaments and culture. Furthermore, the Methodists and Baptists were much less prone to get stuck on technicalities related to apostolic succession, or the education of the clergy, than were the more formal church bodies. It is easy to see how it was from the ranks of the Methodists and Baptists that there rose up the first Black preachers of which we have any record. Early Black Preaching It is ironic that many of the first