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Course: The Historical Origin and Development of the African American Episcopal Church

Textbooks

The Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. AMEC Publishing House. 2012.

Allen, Richard.  The Life Experience and Gospel Labor of Richard Allen. Philadelphia: Martin

& Boden Print, 1833. Book. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/allen/menu.html (Accessed

10/2013)

Lee, Jarena. Religious Experiences and Journal of Jarena Lee. http://www.umilta.net/jarena.html (accessed 10/2013)

Newman, Richard. Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the

Black Founding Fathers. New York: NYU Press, 2008. Book

Smith, Amanda Berry. An Autobiography, The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist. Chicago: Meyer & Brother, Publishers, 1893. This work was republished by Oxford University Press in 1988 as part of The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers.

Course Description

This course review the contributions of the men and women who organized the work and establishment of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  Candidates will identify and explain the role each individual played in the formation of the church.

Course Objectives

It is the objective to have each candidate articulate the history of the African Methodist

Episcopal Church and the individuals who sacrificed for the work:

1.   Identify the horsemen of African Methodism

2.   Explain the controversy of Jarena Lee and the acceptance of Women into the clergy.

3.   Compare and contrast the contributions of Richard Allen, Morris Brown, William Paul

Quinn, Daniel Alexander Payne and Henry McNeil Turner.

Participants Obligations/Requirements

Each student is expected to:

1.      Arrive to class on-time

2.      Participate in class discussion demonstrating preparation.

3.      Read assigned readings

4.      Participate in group projects and discussions

5.      Turn in assignments on time

 

Measurable Outcome

Each student of group should be able to:

1.      Explain the personal process for discerning one’s call with 95% clarity

2.      Explain the difference between local and itinerant ministerial orders with 100% accuracy.

3.      Describe the difference between the deacon and the elder with 100% accuracy.

4.      List the five ministries associated with local orders with 95% accuracy.

 

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