TY - BOOK AU - Bond,Adam ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - The imposing preacher: Samuel DeWitt Proctor and black public faith SN - 9781451452242 AV - BX6455.P76 B665 2013 U1 - 286.1092 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Proctor, Samuel D. KW - Baptists KW - United States KW - Clergy KW - Biography KW - African American Baptists KW - African Americans KW - Religion KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and indexes; Racism and the post-segregation witness of Black public faith -- On the making of a public theologian : Proctor's cultural roots -- On the making of a public faith : Proctor's intellectual roots -- Everybody is God's somebody : a defense of Black humanity -- Preparing public theologians : Black preachers and racial uplift -- Creating a genuine community : a Black Christian vision of transforming American public space N2 - Samuel DeWitt Proctor's voice is essential to understanding the black social gospel. Proctor brought a black middle class understanding of America to his preaching and had a notion of faith that presented an alternative reality to the pervasive racism in the United States and sought to honor the inherent dignity of all humanity UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781451452242/ ER -