Preaching Outside the Temple: On the Literary Witness of James Baldwin as the Word Made Public

It was the late Bishop Ithiel Conrad Clemmons, former minister of the First Church of God in Christ of Brooklyn, New York, who said of the late famed novelist/essayist James Baldwin that “he was America’s inside eye on the Black Holiness and Pentecostal Churches”. Though Baldwin admitted that the cu...

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Main Author: Williams, Eric Lewis (Author)
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 12
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B Salvation
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B Holiness
B sanctified
B Baldwin
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