Daniel Rudd

Calling a Church to Justice

Gary B Agee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2017
Liturgical Press (Verlag)
978-0-8146-4525-3 (ISBN)

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In May of 1890, The Christian Solider, an African American newspaper, identified the Catholic journalist and activist Daniel Arthur Rudd as the “greatest negro Catholic in America.” Yet many Catholics today are unaware of Rudd's efforts to bring about positive social change during the early decades of the Jim Crow era. In Daniel Rudd: Calling a Church to Justice, Gary Agee offers a compelling look at the life and work of this visionary who found inspiration in his Catholic faith to fight for the principles of liberty and justice. Born into slavery, Rudd achieved success early on as the publisher of the American Catholic Tribune, one of the most successful black newspapers of its era, and as the founder of the National Black Catholic Congress.

Even as Rudd urged his fellow black Catholics to maintain their spiritual home within the fold of the Catholic Church, he called on that same church to live up what he believed to be her cardinal teaching, "the Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man." Rudd’s hopeful spirit lives on today in the important work of the National Black Catholic Congress, as it carries forward his pursuit of social justice.

Gary B. Agee teaches church history for the School of Theology and Christian Ministry at Anderson University, Indiana. Agee has been a pastor in the Church of God (Anderson) since 1985. He is currently the lead pastor of the Beachwood Church of God (Camden, Ohio). Agee is the author of numerous books including A Cry for Justice: Daniel Rudd and His Life in Black Catholicism, Journalism, and Activism, 1854-1933 (2011). He is also the author of Daniel Rudd: Calling a Church to Justice (2017), published by Liturgical Press.

Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Chapter One
Enslaved in Catholic Kentucky 9
Chapter Two
A Prophetic Voice in a Hope-Filled Season 16
Chapter Three
Finding Justice in the Catholic Church 28
Chapter Four
Partners in Pursuit of Equality 36
Chapter Five
A Foundation for Justice 48
Chapter Six
Campaigning for Equality and Racial Justice 62
Chapter Seven
Matters of Justice for Catholics beyond Concerns of Race 75
Chapter Eight
Coming Together for Change 88
Chapter Nine
Life after the American Catholic Tribune 106
Notes 115
Bibliography 123
Index 127

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	People of God
Verlagsort	Collegeville, MN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 210 mm
Gewicht	170 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8146-4525-9 / 0814645259
ISBN-13	978-0-8146-4525-3 / 9780814645253
Zustand	Neuware