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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815330403321

Autore

Burrow Rufus <1951->

Titolo

Making good the claim : holiness and visible unity in the Church of God Reformation Movement / / Rufus Burrow, Jr. ; foreword by Barry L. Callen ; afterword by Gary B. Agee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eugene, Oregon : , : Pickwick Publications, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4982-3766-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

289.9

Soggetti

Race - Religious aspects - Church of God

Holiness churches - Doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 300; Pages:301 to 312

Sommario/riassunto

The Church of God Reformation Movement (founded in 1881) has the distinction of having been founded on the two core principles of holiness and visible unity. Standard histories of the group proudly argue that the founder and pioneers exhibited a zeal for interracial unity that began to wane only in the early years of the twentieth century. This book rejects that claim and argues instead that little to no extant hard evidence supports that view. Moreover, Making Good the Claim argues that while blacks eagerly joined the group, they did so not because whites expended much energy evangelizing amo