Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P703
ISBN: 9780881469523
Price: $30.00
THE THEOLOGY OF PAUL TILLICH examines Tillich's main theological work, the three-volume Systematic Theology, against the background of Tillich's developing theological thought since his studies around 1900.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1063
ISBN: 9798897360307
Price: $45.00
First Baptist Church, Waco, Texas, which celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2026, is a moderate congregation of diverse social, economic, educational, and religious backgrounds. This book narrates key themes in the rich history of the church, which has been deeply affected by successive cultural contexts, including slavery, wars, the Depression, the Civil Rights movement, denominational conflicts, and secularization. Organized in 1851, the church has offered weekly worship in central Texas since that time.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P728
ISBN: 9780881469912
Price: $30.00
America's first appointed woman missionary kept a journal recording her experiences in a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, religiously pluralistic world. Charlotte Atlee White Rowe's 1815-1822 journal recounts her cross-cultural work among Hindus, Muslims, Eurasians, and Europeans in British India. Most of her entries come from her first years and reveal a ministry being shaped by experience and reflection. An introduction and conclusion sketch her life before and after India. It is a remarkable addition to mission, women's, and Baptist studies.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P625
ISBN: 9780881467895
Price: $40.00
Baptists historically have shared common beliefs, including believer's baptism, congregational governance, and separation of church and state. This book addresses the question of why Baptists differ in various parts of the world. A central component of the answer lies in part in the variety of cultures where Baptists have planted churches. In order to document the diversities, this study has intentionally sought contributions from Baptist scholars across the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and eastern Europe as well as from western Europe and North America where Baptist presence is more common.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P693
ISBN: 9780881469264
Price: $25.00
Xenophon (430-354 BCE) was a man of many modes: follower of Socrates, Athenian General, friend to Sparta, philosopher, political theorist, military historian, and writer. This collection of essays explores his writings across three genres, all of which he blends into one another: philosophical dialogue, political theory, and history. This collection is based on the 2022 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, sponsored by The Thomas C. and Ramon E. McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles at Mercer University.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P632
ISBN: 9780881468069
Price: $28.00
MORE WITNESSES TO THE BAPTIST HERITAGE continues telling the story of the rich and often overlooked diversity of Baptist life. Highlighted in this volume are Obadiah Holmes, Thomas Grantham, Anne Steele, Ann Hasseltine Judson, William Knibb, John Mason Peck, Emily Chubbuck Judson, William J. Simmons, Fannie Exile Scudder Heck, Henry L. Morehouse, Hannah Marie Norris Armstrong, Augustus H. Strong, John Clifford, Virginia Broughton, Leslie Lee Gwaltney, Clarence Leonard Jordan, Joseph Martin Dawson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eric Charles Rust, Prathia Hall, Cora Anne Davis, Addie Davis, William J. Reynolds, and Glen Harold Stassen.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P676
ISBN: 9780881469028
Price: $22.00
When the Lane cake, named after Emma Rylander Lane (1856-1904), appeared in Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1960), the boozy Southern dessert was at peak popularity. Yet the culinary artist behind the cake had fallen into obscurity. FROM BISCUITS TO LANE CAKE recovers Lane's biography, as well as the recipes she published in SOME GOOD THINGS TO EAT (1898) and the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1004
ISBN: 9780881467864
Price: $60.00
Minutes from the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia show the congregation was from the beginning the mother church for Baptists in the American colonies and early republic. Baptist members of the Pennepack Church had begun meeting in the center city in 1688. They hosted the organizing meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist Association in 1707 and organized formally in 1746. This volume includes minutes from 1757 through 1806, when William Staughton became pastor.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P635
ISBN: 9780881468106
Price: $35.00
Paul Tillich's ideas and methods continue to inspire and guide students, teachers, and professionals in all fields. Each essay explores another facet of Tillich's influence in education, religion, popular culture, science, health, social reform, and political action. They are chosen to be "snapshots" of his ongoing influence, accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, and relevant to corporate and non-profit leaders alike.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P714
ISBN: 9780881469622
Price: $25.00
The eight essays in this volume were first presented at the 2023 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, the fifteenth annual conference sponsored by Mercer University's Thomas C. and Ramona E. McDonald Center for America’s Founding Principles. The volume explores the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Product Code: P760
ISBN: 9798897360543
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Price: $25.00
TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOPHOCLES explores the relationship between the fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Greek philosophical, tragic, and epic traditions. The text investigates this relationship by examining both the influence of these traditions on O'Connor and also their expression in her work. Included are chapters on the kinship between O'Connor's fiction and Sophocles, Homer, Euripides, Aristotle, and German political philosopher Eric Vogelin.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P640
ISBN: 9780881468373
Price: $25.00
The dominant public philosophy of the United States of America has long been some version of liberalism dedicated to individual liberty, equal rights, religious freedom, government by consent, and established limits on political power. Today, however, we find ourselves in unusual times, when the major political parties have powerful and growing wings that embrace decidedly illiberal public philosophies. What seems new here is not the critiques themselves, but the power and popularity of political movements that openly and proudly reject the first principles of America's long-dominant public philosophy. This book proposes to return with fresh eyes to the beginning of liberalism and the political philosophy of John Locke. Instead of looking at Lockean liberalism as a simple and timeworn ideological program, the essays reexamine Locke's project by remaining alive to the complexity and nuance with which he addressed his subject.
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