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Clarence Jordan: Essential Writings

A true American prophet Clarence Jordan (1912-1969) was reared in the heart of the Southern Baptist Church. He passed up the options of scholarship or traditional ministry to found an interracial Christian community in Americus, Georgia at a time when preaching racial justice and equality could spark violence. His cooperative farm was repeatedly attacked by the KKK and subject to a total economic boycott. Through his sermons and his so-called Cotton Patch version of the Gospels — a "dynamic" translation of his own setting Jesus' life in a Southern context Jordan laid out a revolutionary vision of Christian community

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 176
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781570754975
  • Genres
  • theology, spirituality
  • Release date
  • 2003