Sharon J. Grant

Rebaptism Calmly Considered (eBook, ePUB)

Christian Initiation and Resistance In The Early A.M.E. Church of Jamaica

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the sociocultural context that shaped Christian initiation for many early Jamaican congregants within the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Christian initiation in early-twentieth-century Jamaican AME churches included the practice of two water rituals for children within most of its congregations--first, the christening or sprinkling of water on infants, and second, immersion when the child reached the age of consent and made a public confession of faith. The ambiguity of John Wesley's doctrine and practice of the sacrament of baptism are provided with the cultural milieu of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Jamaica to allow the reader to calmly consider the spectrum of evidence--and consider how the use of two water rituals became normative for many disciples of Christ to become full members within the early AME Church in Jamaica.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781532653018
• Artikelnr.: 57952235

Autorenporträt

Sharon Grant is Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, North Carolina.