A Century of Gospel-work
Author: William Francis Pringle Noble
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 646
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Author: William Francis Pringle Noble
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 646
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Erik S. Gellman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011-07-15
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 025209333X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen Whitfield and Claude Williams, along with their wives Zella Whitfield and Joyce Williams, drew on their bedrock religious beliefs to stir ordinary men and women to demand social and economic justice in the eras of the Great Depression, New Deal, and Second World War. Williams and Whitfield preached a working-class gospel rooted in the American creed that hard, productive work entitled people to a decent standard of living. Gellman and Roll detail how the two preachers galvanized thousands of farm and industrial workers for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. They also link the activism of the 1930s and 1940s to that of the 1960s and emphasize the central role of the ministers' wives, with whom they established the People's Institute for Applied Religion. This detailed narrative illuminates a cast of characters who became the two couples' closest allies in coordinating a complex network of activists that transcended Jim Crow racial divisions, blurring conventional categories and boundaries to help black and white workers make better lives. In chronicling the shifting contexts of the actions of Whitfield and Williams, The Gospel of the Working Class situates Christian theology within the struggles of some of America's most downtrodden workers, transforming the dominant narratives of the era and offering a fresh view of the promise and instability of religion and civil rights unionism.
Author: Ronald J. Sider
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 1999-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0801058457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcerned to promote an authentic, biblical faith, this book suggests ways to combine evangelism with social action for effective witness in today's world.
Author: William Francis Pringle Noble
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 604
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 664
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Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780802136169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.
Author: William Francis Pringle Noble
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Whitney Shiner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2003-10-30
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0826462200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars have long understood that the texts we now know as the Gospels were read aloud in the Greco-Roman world, but few have actually envisioned what a performance of the Gospel of Mark would have been like in the first century and how it would have shaped the experience of its audience. Proclaiming the Gospel shows us. Oral performances in the New Testament world were lively affairs. In the performance of Greco-Roman theater, readers lose their voices from the stress of emotional passages. Audiences cheer for philosophers as if at a rock concert, and in law courts, they are paid for their responses. Storytellers compete for attention with jugglers, and some speakers must fend off hostile crowds. Congregations at churches and synagogues cheer as if at the theater. Shiner reveals the ways that Mark wrote his Gospel to compete in this arena and how his audiences would have responded: applause for the miracles of Jesus, then an altogether different response at the cross. Whitney Shiner is Assistant Professor of Christian Origins at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and the author of Follow Me: Disciples in markan Rhetoric.
Author: William Francis Pringle Noble
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781018831107
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