A.M.E Theology/Doctrine

Anyone has info on the doctrinal/theological stance of the A.M.E church ??

simply seth wrote:

Anyone has info on the doctrinal/theological stance of the A.M.E church ??

I'd start here.....

http://www.ame-today.com/abcsofame/

the ABC's of being A.M.E.

here's a little preview of what you get.....

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OUR NAME: AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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The word African means that the church was organized by people of African descent and heritage. It does not mean that the church was founded in Africa, or that it was for persons of African descent only.
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The church's roots is of the family of Methodist churches. Methodism provides an orderly system of rules and regulations and places emphasis on a plain and simple gospel.
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Episcopal refers to the form of government under which the church operates. The chief executive and administrative officers of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination are the Bishops of the church.

{TwistTim: one note here.... to my knowledge, in the south, it was founded so slaves could go to church when it wasn't ok for them to go to white church but they hungered for the Word of God..... one Slave learned from a preacher, and taught other slaves.... or so the story goes that that's the foundation of it...... as I said, this is just one version of the history, there are others, as you can see here.....} in the OUR DOCTRINES: THE MAJOR BELIEFS OF THE CHURCH

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Our Major Beliefs

What We Believe

The Motto "God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, Man Our Brother" is a great summary of what the African Methodist Episcopal Church believes.

Also known as the A.M.E. Church for short, the denomination is Methodist in terms of its basic doctrine and order of worship. It was born, through adversity, of the Methodist church and to this day does not differ in any major way from what all Methodists believe. The split from the main branch of the Methodist Church was not a result of doctrinal differences but rather the result of a time period that was marked by man's intolerance of his fellow man, based on the color of his skin. It was a time of slavery, oppression and the dehumanization of people of African descent and many of these un-Christian practices were brought into the church, forcing Richard Allen and a group of fellow worshippers of color to form a splinter denomination of the Methodist Church. To find the basic foundations of the beliefs of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, .you need look no further than The Apostles' Creed and The Twenty Five Articles of Religion.

{TwistTim: If you keep looking in there, you can get a bigger picture, hope this helps}