Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H999
ISBN: 9780881467680
Price: $35.00
We live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of us can manage. Can we still find spiritual truths that will restore a sense of a higher meaning to our lives? For millennia, people have looked to literature, to scriptures, epics, poems, plays, novels, and films for insights into the human condition. In our increasingly rationalized world, some of these contemporary storytellers--like a Bernard Malamud, Flannery O’Connor, John Updike, or Toni Morrison--stretch their art to find new words for the sacred. Brown invites us to reread them to listen for this elusive transcendence, a sacred mystery that rebukes both the atheist's weak humanism and the believer's naïve supernaturalism.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1000
ISBN: 9780881467697
Price: $35.00
Isaac Watts is universally recognized as one of the greatest English-language hymn writers of the eighteenth century, the "Golden Age of English Hymnody." Watts almost singlehandedly broke the monopoly of metrical psalm singing and practically invented the hymn form as it is known today. Particular attention is given to the meanings of the words as they were used by Watts, the scriptural backgrounds of the texts, and their relationship to other writings by the English author.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H772
ISBN: 9780881461312
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $60.00
Emily Chubbick Judson (1817–1854) was a nationally known writer (her pseudonym was Fanny Forrester) with pieces appearing alongside those by Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman, and she walked in literary company second to none. This is the first volume of her life and works and consists of footnotes, time lines, and biographies that have all emerged out of the project itself.
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Product Code: P302
ISBN: 9780865548480
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00
Jimmy Morrow, a pastor and serpent handler for over a quarter of a century, explores the history of serpent handling from a variety of sources, including his extensive familiarity with families whose roots are deep in Appalachia. It will be of interest to anyone interested in Appalachian culture or religion in the South.
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Product Code: P353
ISBN: 9780881461206
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $24.00
This Baptist history textbook highlights the diversity of the Baptist movement in North America as it has developed over the past few centuries. Under the Baptist tent are such diverse groups as Primitive Baptists, Freewill Baptists, Seventh-Day Baptists, American Baptists, Southern Baptists, North American Baptists, and Independent Baptists.
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Product Code: H755
ISBN: 9780881461077
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $45.00
Domestic Slavery originated in the nineteenth century as a literary debate. The chapters were originally the letters of Southern pastor Richard Fuller and Northern educator Francis Wayland, with each defending their respective positions. Historians of Southern religion consider Domestic Slavery to be one of the major contributions to the nineteenth-century debate over the peculiar institution. This critical edition of Domestic Slavery, which includes annotations and an appendix of related documents, represents the first reprint of this important work to be published since the mid-nineteenth century.
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Product Code: H640
ISBN: 9780865547704
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $45.00
This collection of essays centered on different aspects of Baptist History is presented as a tribute to Walter B. “Buddy” Shurden, church historian, teacher, preacher, author, Baptist apologist. The essays cover international, national, and local aspects of Baptist History. Contributors include historians from the US, UK, and Canada.
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Product Code: H582
ISBN: 9780865547711
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $40.00
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Product Code: H018
ISBN: 9780865540156
Product Format: Hardback
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $35.00
In the national resurgence of Evangelicalism, there is a noticeable distinction between “Southern” Evangelicalism and all other varieties. In this collection of essays, various authors observe and discuss the variety, uniqueness, and importance of Southern Evangelicalism.
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Product Code: P342
ISBN: 9780881460193
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00
This book will challenge you, comfort you, chasten you, confirm you, change you. Read it slowly; be honest when you talk about God, and the truth will set you free
—Ferrol A. Sams,Jr., M.D.
Kirby Godsey tells us things our preachers should have told us when we were growing up but often didn’t”
––Will D. Campbell
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Product Code: H024
ISBN: 9780865540231
Product Format: Hardback
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Price: $35.00
Russell Aldwinckle examines the truth-claims of various religions without the science and phenomenology to make the case for the uniqueness of Christianity. He argues against the tendencies today to merge religious teachings in favor of looking at each separately.
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Product Code: H025
ISBN: 9780865540255
Product Format: Hardback
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Price: $35.00
In this first part of Albert Schweitzer’s investigation of the Lord’s Supper, Schweitzer shows that the problem of the Lord’s Supper fundamentally relates with the life of Jesus and so critically impacts all study of the historical Jesus.
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