Nothing but the Blood

The Blood of Jesus and the Black Church

von Billy J Hill

110 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

No people have sung, preached, and survived on the blood of Jesus like the Black church.The gospel came to them in chains - preached, often, by the very hands that held the whip, in a Bible with the Exodus cut out. By every human calculation, a faith delivered under such conditions should have been discarded as the master's religion. Instead, a people in bondage heard past the master's sermon to the Christ the master never meant to preach - the One who was Himself beaten, stripped, and killed by the powers of His day - and took the blood for themselves. In it they found what the law had denied them: that they were not property, but the ransomed of the Lord, purchased at a price beyond calculation.Nothing but the Blood traces that single scarlet thread through four centuries. From the hush harbors of slavery, where a forbidden people worshiped a crucified Christ in secret and turned an iron pot upside down to catch the sound of their own praise; through the spirituals, which carried a whole theology of the blood in a form no master could confiscate; through the independent church built against all odds, the preaching tradition whose crimson center never moved, and the gospel music forged out of grief; to the freedom movement, where a people overcame not by the sword but by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. This is the story of how a people took the blood that was preached to keep them in chains and found in it the ground of their liberation.Written for the academy, the pulpit, and the pew alike, this is the third and completing volume of a trilogy on the blood of Jesus. It is history, hymnody, and witness - the living theology of a people who had nothing but the blood and found that the blood was enough.Come and hear the song they sang in secret. It is still being sung.

• ISBN: 9798951397584
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp