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Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
Born from the spiritual and community life of Black Methodists in the post–Civil War South, this denomination played a lasting role in African American religious history. Its official writings preserve a clear record of its beliefs, structure, and sense of purpose.
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The Doctrines and Discipline of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Revised Edition 1918
by Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
About the author
The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was not an individual author but a church body that published works in its own name. Formed in 1870, the denomination later became known as the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and its publications reflect its role in shaping Methodist worship, doctrine, and church governance within Black religious life in the United States.
Books issued under the church's name, such as The Doctrines and Discipline of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, were meant to guide ministers and congregations. They set out the denomination's beliefs, rules, and organization, while also preserving the voice of a community building its own institutions during Reconstruction and the decades that followed.
Today, these works are valuable not only for church history but also for readers interested in African American history, theology, and the development of independent religious leadership after emancipation.