Give Me This Mountain
About the Book
As pastor of Detroit’s now-historic New Bethel Baptist Church, Reverend C. L. Franklin gained nationwide fame for his extraordinary gifts as a preacher. Recorded albums of his sermons reached millions and he led nationwide tours with gospel groups that included his daughter Aretha.This collection of Franklin's best-known sermons shows the power of his preaching and the development of his influential style. A learned man, Franklin had attended both seminary and college. Yet in his sermons he drew upon an old-fashioned, extemporaneous style of preaching--"whooping" or chanting--that combined oratory and intoned poetry to touch the heads and the hearts of his listeners. This edition includes Franklin’s life history in his own words and an afterword on the African American sermon tradition and Franklin's place in it.
About the Author
C. L. Franklin (1915-1984) was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist in Detroit. The Library of Congress added his sermon "The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest" (included in this volume) to the National Recording Registry in 2011.Reviews
Blurbs
"C.L. Franklin, the most imitated soul preacher in history, was a combination of soul and science and substance and sweetness."--Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, from the Foreword
"A monument to Franklin's life and work."--Trudier Harris, author of Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin
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