Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H944
ISBN: 9780881466348
Price: $35.00
PROPHETIC INTERRUPTIONS initially draws numerous, yet previously unknown, connections between Paul Tillich, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer during their shared years in Frankfurt and New York, focusing particularly on the years 1929–1944. While Critical Theory was being formulated, Tillich, the teacher and colleague of Adorno and Horkheimer, respectively, was working on his own religious social(ist) theory. Moving beyond this historical background, Wagoner shows how these personal connections evolved and were mutually engaging. Instead of pursuing discernible mutual influence among Tillich, Adorno, and Horkheimer, the book instead demonstrates that their ideas were forged in the crucible of friendship and common purpose, toward the common end of emancipation.
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Product Code: H062
ISBN: 9780865540323
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While great attention has been paid to the history of Southern Baptists, this books details the specific role Southern Baptists played in the relatively unexplored and controversial decade of the 1920s, particularly focusing on the issues that confronted American Protestants during that time.
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Product Code: H166
ISBN: 9780865541764
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William Wallace Finlator is a Southern Baptist preacher. Except for three years a t Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the mid-1930s he has spent all of his life in North Carolina. Like most North Carolina Baptist ministers, Finlator has vigorously opposed gambling and the consumption of beverage alcohol. But while many ministers were organizing “Christian” segregation academies, Finlator campaigned for elimination of racial discrimination in public and religious institutions. He has opposed capital punishment and the war in Vietnam. He advocated separation of church and state, opposing prayer in public schools and proposing abolition of tax exemptions for church property. He has served as chaplain of the North Carolina AFL-CIO, chairman of the North Carolina Committee on Civil Rights, and vice president of the American Civil Liberties Union. Even in retirement Finlator remains a prophet, a humanist, and a pastor to many people who seek his compassion and counsel.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H972
ISBN: 9780881466973
Price: $60.00
BAPTISTS IN EARLY NORTH AMERICA--MEHERRIN, VIRGINIA features the transcription of the records of Meherrin, an eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Baptist church on the frontier of Virginia in rural Lunenburg County. Despite its backwater location and relatively small congregation, Meherrin played a significant role in one of the great episodes of Baptist history in young America: the rise of Separate Baptists and their influence in Virginia.
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Product Code: H150
ISBN: 9780865541603
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Because historians tend to see John Foster Dulles's earlier years in light of his term as Secretary of State during the Cold War, Mark Toulouse aims to correct this misconception and show how Dulles changed between his time as a leader of worldwide ecumenism and liberal Protestantism in the 1930s and the Cold War.
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Product Code: P017
ISBN: 9780865541870
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $20.00
In this first comprehensive treatment of the role of American churches in the processes that led to the Civil War, Goen suggests that the division of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches along the lines of slavery foreshadowed and was a major cause of the imminent dissolution of the Union.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P430
ISBN: 9780881462449
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00
Taking significant events in Baptist history, the writers tell the amazing Baptist story of the voluntary approach to the Christian faith in popluar, nontechnical but appealing ways. The intentionally brief chapters are, for the most part, void of heavy, historical notes. Designed as an introductory study for students, laity, and parish ministers, more advanced students will also benefit from a close reading of this text.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: H803
ISBN: 9780881461893
Product Format: Hardback
Price: $60.00
Volume four of this incredible series begins with letters following the birth of Emily Frances Judson. These letters reflect correspondence between home, family, and friends; they also reflect the life within the missionary society in Burma with letters between the missionaries. The letters of 1849 show serious health issues for both Emily and Adoniram, the conclusion of Adoniram's life, and Emily's return to the United States.
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Product Code: H202
ISBN: 9780865542280
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Most books about Soren Kiekegaard’s pseudonymous works do not read this literature in the way that it was intended by its author to be read. In Faith, Reason, and History Robert C. Roberts has taken a small but central segment of Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous literature and has tried to meet it’s author’s challenge. Professor Roberts has tried to think Johannes Climacus’s thoughts after him, to “reduplicate” in the sphere of thought, if not of existence, the adventure of Philosophical Fragments. This, and nothing less, is the kind of reading the book demands.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P591
ISBN: 9780881467222
Price: $35.00
The focus of this volume is on the varieties of religious experiences in sports on the global stage. The first generation of sports and religion scholars debated the ways sports intersected with or even replaced traditional religions and investigated self-identified religious adherents and institutions that have used sports in traditional religious contexts. Our task here is to expand, revise, and complicate this conversation. The essays in this volume look both within and beyond conventional frames to shine a light on the many facets of this endlessly compelling topic.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P465
ISBN: 9780881464450
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00
Resources for preachers steadily appear, called forth by the perennial need on the part of working pastors for helpful and inspirational materials backed by tested experience, reverent scholarship, and creative insights. The essays in this book are of that cast, and each essay is the work of an experienced practitioner-scholar in the field of preaching. The chapters focus on the preaching ministry of Gardner Calvin Taylor, in whose honor the volume was prepared. They are offered, with affection and esteem, by colleagues, students, and friends, fellow preachers all, whose own attempts to speak the unsearchable riches of Christ owe much to the life and labors of Gardner C. Taylor.
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Product Code: H197
ISBN: 9780865542198
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At his death in 1976 Norman Perrin was widely recognized as one of the most creative and influntial biblical scholars on the American scene.
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