caa a22 4500 386357544 CHVBK 20180307111900.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3168210 doi S0009640700067068 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3168210 Platt Warren C. Mr. Platt is an Episcopal priest and librarian in the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, New York, New York. The African Orthodox Church: An Analysis of Its First Decade [Elektronische Daten] [Warren C. Platt] The African Orthodox church, an expression of religious autonomy among black Americans, had its genesis in the work and thought of George Alexander McGuire, a native of Antigua, whose religious journey and changing ecclesiastical affiliation paralleled his deepening interest in and commitment to the cause of Afro-American nationalism and racial consciousness. Born in 1866 to an Anglican father and a Moravian mother, George Alexander McGuire was educated at Mico College for Teachers in Antigua and the Nisky Theological Seminary, a Moravian institution in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (then the Danish West Indies). In 1893 McGuire, having served a pastorate at a Moravian church in the Virgin Islands, migrated to the United States, where he became an Episcopalian. In 1897 he was ordained a priest in that church and, in the succeeding decade, served several parishes, including St. Thomas Church in Philadelphia, which was founded by Absalom Jones. His abilities and skills were recognized, and in 1905 he became the archdeacon for Colored Work in the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas. Here he became involved with various plans—none of which bore fruit—which would have provided for the introduction of black bishops in the Episcopal church to assist in that church's work of evangelization among black Americans. It is believed, however, that McGuire was influenced by the different schemes which were advanced, and that he "almost certainly carried away from Arkansas the notion of a separate, autonomous black church, and one that was episcopal in character and structure, as one option for black religious self-determination and one avenue for achieving black independence.” Copyright © American Society of Church History 1989 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 58/4(1989-12), 474-488 0009-6407 58:4<474 1989 58 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3168210 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3168210 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Platt Warren C. Mr. Platt is an Episcopal priest and librarian in the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, New York, New York NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 58/4(1989-12), 474-488 0009-6407 58:4<474 1989 58 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge