Black Pastors and Leaders: Memphis, 1819-1972.

Charles H. Martin; David M. Tucker

doi:10.2307/2205696

Black Pastors and Leaders: Memphis, 1819-1972.

The Journal of Southern History ◽

10.2307/2205696 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 140

Author(s):

Charles H. Martin ◽

David M. Tucker

Keyword(s):

Black Pastors

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Marvin A. McMickle, A Time to Speak: How Black Pastors Can Respond to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Black Theology ◽

10.1558/blth.v8i1.120 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 120-121

Author(s):

Jonathan Gichaara

Keyword(s):

Aids Pandemic ◽

Black Pastors ◽

Hiv Aids

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Opening the Gates

Clergy Education in America ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195314670.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 155-199

Author(s):

Larry Abbott Golemon

Keyword(s):

African Americans ◽

Liberal Arts ◽

Theological Education ◽

Basic Education ◽

Spiritual Healing ◽

Wilberforce University ◽

Hampton Institute ◽

Working People ◽

Black Pastors ◽

Religious Training

The fifth chapter explores how theological education was opened to women, African Americans, and working class whites. Congregationalist Mary Lyon founded Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary (1837) to provide a rigorous education built on the liberal arts, theology, personal discipline, and domestic work—all designed to produce independent women for missions. Other women, like Methodist Lucy Rider, founded religious training schools for women in their denominations. For African Americans, pioneers like AME Bishop Daniel Payne, who revived Wilberforce University (1856), developed a blend of liberal arts and theological education. W. E. B. Dubois fought for this model as the way to educate “the talented tenth” needed for racial uplift. The other model, pioneered by Samuel Armstrong at the Hampton Institute (VA) and Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee (Alabama), combined a religious training school with industrial work so that black pastors and teachers could be self-supporting. Finally, Bible colleges, like that of Dwight Moody, opened theological studies to working people with only a basic education. Emma Dryer brought practical, normal school approaches to the beginnings of the Moody Bible Institute (MBI) in Chicago. Under Dr. R. A. Torrey, MBI combined a literal reading of Scripture with experiential holiness, spiritual healing, end-times prophecy, and practical business methods—all of which marked the future fundamentalist movement.

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