{"id":134469,"date":"2025-01-27T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134469"},"modified":"2025-01-27T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T22:51:07","slug":"ct-f-lionel-young-iii-the-blood-sweat-and-tears-of-black-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134469","title":{"rendered":"(CT) F. Lionel Young III&#8211;The Blood, Sweat, and Tears of Black Missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Readers interested in the growing diversity of the Christian story will find it useful to consider Shaw\u2019s work alongside another recently published volume,&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present<\/em>. Though focused mainly on African Christianity, it features several articles on the work of Black missionaries. Noteworthy contributions come from historians like Brian Stanley (who examines the important role of Black missionaries in Africa), David Killingray (who shows how emancipated slaves served the missionary movement), and Kimberly Hill (who considers how the concept of \u201cEthiopianism\u201d spurred Black efforts at evangelization).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studies like these offer a richer and fuller picture of the diversity of Christianity. Africans and African Americans embraced the gospel, transformed it in significant ways, and then made remarkable contributions to the growth of Christianity. Even today, we are only now beginning to appreciate the contours of this story. As Killingray notes, even the \u201cevangelization of Africa\u201d was \u201cin the hands of Africans\u201d and \u201coften out of sight of European missions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historians are now bringing these stories into the open, casting new light on the prophetic remarks of King David in Psalm 68:31\u201332. In the words of the King James Version, \u201cEthiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God\u201d and sing the praises of the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/01\/missiology-reimagined-kent-michael-shaw-black-missionary-19th-century\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sermons, letters, diaries, journals. <br><br>A new book sifts through documents to bring to light the nineteenth-century history of African American missionaries.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/momIunqmmF\">https:\/\/t.co\/momIunqmmF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1882496046137266670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers interested in the growing diversity of the Christian story will find it useful to consider Shaw\u2019s work alongside another recently published volume,&nbsp;The&nbsp;Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present. Though focused mainly on African Christianity,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134469\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,186,182,120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-church-history","category-missions","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134473,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134469\/revisions\/134473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}