Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P695
ISBN: 9780881469288
Price: $35.00
If festschrifts celebrate a person for their life's work, few are more worthy of the honor than Bill J. Leonard. WHY STUDY BAPTISTS? features eleven essays by friends, colleagues, and former students that bear witness to Leonard's "style". These essays explore topics ranging from race and spirituality to Appalachian religion, and religious freedom. If one detects a familiar ring, it is because those are broad themes that reflect Bill Leonard's career.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1007
ISBN: 9780881467963
Price: $25.00
LIFE LESSONS covers topics of the heart and mind, often with related stories from the Scriptures. Ninety concise and to-the-point chapters speak to everyday topics we all may experience on any given day from dawn to bedtime. There are stories that will transport you back to your youth and then bring you back to the present with a jolt or two of truth. The chapters cover feelings and insights from both secular and Biblical standpoints and often offer a humorous touch to subjects we all enjoy.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1043
ISBN: 9780881469233
Price: $45.00
Volume II documents a nineteenth-century literary celebrity's decision to commit herself to the cause of woman's rights. The first volume of this series revealed a feminist sensibility in the subtexts of Elizabeth Oakes Smith's early poetry, fiction, and memoir. Volume II traces the sharp turn in her career at mid-century: a multidimensional effort involving newspaper editorial, a lecture career extending as far as Louisville and Chicago, and throughout these efforts, an attempt to garner the support to inaugurate the first journal owned and edited by women dedicated to the cause of woman's empowerment.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P661
ISBN: 9780881468731
Price: $20.00
East Tennessee poet Denton Loving's second collection centers on the bond that endures between father and son, even after death. Loving explores and celebrates the physical and psychological landscapes of his native Appalachia--its mountains and valleys, its flora and fauna--with language that is lyrical and bursting with sudden shocks of emotional power.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1058
ISBN: 9780881469721
Price: $27.00
It's a wintry April 1833 in Watkinsville, Georgia. Fourteen-year-old Barker McRae is stuck living with her odious uncle, militia captain Wiley Wood, as she waits for her father, a Methodist circuit rider, to return. Instead, a stranger arrives. Matthew Higgenbotham, a land lottery messenger who dreams of leaving Georgia, shows up at Wiley's farm with unexpected news: Barker has won forty acres in the latest state lottery. THE DELIVERANCE OF BARKER MCRAE weaves fiction and meticulously researched history to introduce readers to two travelers, thrown together by luck and duty, on an adventure neither of them wanted. This is a tale about trespass, frontier religion, fathers and daughters, and friendships between unlikely companions.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P608
ISBN: 9780881467741
Price: $18.00
First cousins Ellison (Eli) Winfield and Adeline (Delia) Green grow up across the street from one another in Green Branch, South Carolina, in the 1960s and 70s. Susan Beckham Zurenda masterfully transports readers into a small Southern town where quiet, ordinary life becomes extraordinary. In this compelling coming of age story, culture, family, friends, bullies, and lovers propel two young people to unite to guard each other in a world where love, hope, and connectedness ultimately triumph.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P617
ISBN: 9780881467772
Price: $16.00
In his thirteenth collection of poetry, Jack B. Bedell examines moments of reparation and continuance in the face of loss. By turns personal, ecological, cultural, and fantastic, these poems promise new maps to navigate damaged territories. The rituals of family and South Louisiana culture share space with folklore and history here.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P634
ISBN: 9780881468090
Price: $25.00
This first book-length study of Paul Tillich's ethics is drawn from research in the Harvard Archives of Tillich and fifty years of teaching Tillich's social-political thought. Ronald H. Stone's fourth work on Tillich's philosophy the ethic is examined from the early ontological to socialist ethics to his own final principled-situationalist ethic in late life. Unique to this study is the in-depth inquiry into Tillich's courageous social action correlated with his own philosophical-theological ethic.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P702
ISBN: 9780881469509
Price: $26.00
Nathaniel Hawthorne helped to establish and validate American literature by creating a mythology of America's origins that features prophetic themes and figures. Just as biblical prophets emerge at the dawn of ancient Israel, Hawthorne's prophets emerge in stories of the beginnings of America.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P710
ISBN: 9780881460414
Price: $22.00
Cathryn Hankla's RETURN TO A CERTAIN REGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS gathers recent poems with those culled from eleven previous volumes to reveal a mature poet and her journey through more than four decades of subjects, places, selves, and the challenging art of poetry.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P716
ISBN: 9780881469653
Price: $29.00
Matthew Stallard returns to trace John Milton's Biblical echoes and appropriations in JOHN MILTON, PARADISE REGAINED: THE BIBLICALLY ANNOTATED EDITION. Milton's stunning second epic focuses upon Christ's triumph over Satan found in the New Testament synoptic gospel accounts of the temptation of Jesus in the Judean wilderness.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1033
ISBN: 9780881468830
Price: $60.00
A convert of the "Great Awakening," Issac Backus left the state-supported churches of New England and joined the Baptist movement. Tireless in his advocacy of Baptist issues, Backus opposed church-state establishments and recorded the history of Baptists, all while pastoring a Baptist church in Revolutionary America.
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