HEART OF BLACK PREACHING by Cleophus James LaRue ($29.95)*

1. The Search for Distinctiveness in Black Preaching

• Characteristics of Black Preaching
• Scripture and Life Experiences
• A Communal Interpretive Strategy
• Dynamics of a Black Biblical Hermeneutic

2. The Power Motif in Nineteenth-Century: African American Sermons

• John Jasper
• Alexander Crummell
• Francis J. Grimkfi
• Daniel Alexander Payne
• Elias Camp Morris

3. A Hermeneutic of Power in Contemporary African American Sermons

• Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
• Katie G. Cannon
• A. Louis Patterson, Jr.
• Mozella Mitchell
• Fred C. Lofton
• Carolyn Ann Knight

4. The Basic Dynamics of the African American Sermon: Power and the Sovereign God

• The Black Socio-cultural Context
• Varieties of Black Experience

Appendix: Sermons

• John Jasper: The Sun Do Move
• Alexander Crummell: The Destined Superiority of the Negro
• Francis J. Grimke: A Resemblance and a Contrast between the American Negro and the Children of Israel, in Egypt, or the Duty of the Negro to Contend Earnestly for His Rights Guaranteed under the Constitution: The Roosevelt-Washington Episode, or Race Prejudice
• Daniel Alexander Payne: Welcome to the Ransomed
• Elias C. Morris: The Brotherhood of Man
• Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.: What Makes You So Strong?
  Unexpected Blessings

• Katie G. Cannon: To Tell the Truth
• A. Louis Patterson, Jr.: How to Know You Are in the Kingdom
• Mozella Mitchell: Pro- vi-dence
• Fred C. Lofton: Bad Black Dude on the Road
• Carolyn Ann Knight: If Thou Be a Great People

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments of Copyrighted Material

Index

Cleophus J. LaRue is Francis Landey Patton Associate Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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