Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Urbana Commentary by David R. Swartz William H. Bentley, Tom Skinner, John Perkins, and Bill Pannell

LEFT BEHIND: THE EVANGELICAL LEFT AND THE LIMITS OF EVANGELICAL

POLITICS, 1965-1988

VOLUME II

A Dissertation

Submitted to the Graduate School

of the University of Notre Dame

in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the Degree of

Doctor of Philosophy

by

David R. Swartz

 Excerpts

The rise of Black Power offered a more complex challenge to black evangelicals, ultimately sparking a renewed and more strident sense of black consciousness. The most prominent black young evangelicals—among them William H. Bentley, Tom Skinner, John Perkins, and Bill Pannell

 

16 Dan Orme, “Black Militant Evangelicals: An Interview,” The Other Side 5, No. 5 (September-October 1969), 20-25. The interview of the eight “interested in a Christian form of black power” included Sidney Gravney, Carl Ellis, Philip Bingham, Joseph Hickman, Jr., Henry Greenidge, Matthew Parker, John Skinner, and Columbus Salley.

 

see the rest of the "story" pages 430-424 Pdf file

 

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