Mobilizing for the Common Good: The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617038598 ISBN 13: 9781617038594

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2013

Synopsis

Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation and social justice to America's white evangelical churches. Often an unwelcome voice and always a passionate, provocative clarion, Perkins persisted for forty years in bringing about the formation of the Christian Community Development Association―a large network of evangelical churches and community organizations working in America's poorest communities―and inspired the emerging generation of young evangelicals concerned with releasing the Church from its cultural captivity and oppressive materialism.

John M. Perkins has received surprisingly little attention from historians of modern American religious history and theologians. Mobilizing for the Common Good is an exploration of his theological significance. With contributions from theologians, historians, and activists, this book contends that Perkins ushered in a paradigm shift in twentieth-century evangelical theology that continues to influence Christian community development projects and social justice activists today.

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About the Authors

Peter Slade is associate professor of religion at Ashland University. He is author of Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship.

Charles Marsh is professor of religious studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. He is author of multiple titles including Reclaiming Dietrich Bonheoffer: The Promise of His Theology.

Peter Goodwin Heltzel is associate professor of theology and director of the Micah Institute at New York Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is author of Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics and Resurrection City: A Theology of Improvisation.

From the Back Cover

Essays on the famed activist and preacher, among the first to call for relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution in a post-civil rights America

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617038598
• ISBN 13: 9781617038594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Slade Peter, Marsh Charles, Heltzel Peter Goodwin