Part memoir, part essay collection, part spiritual journal, This Gladdening Light offers a unique perspective on the interconnectedness of universal themes--doubt and devotion, childhood and parenthoo
This biography describes President Carter's life from his early years through his education, military service, his peanut farm business, and his political career, from state senator in 1962, govern
This biography documents the life and work of American dramatist Horton Foote. The author draws on Foote's personal papers and interviews with him, his family, and friends to detail his childhood in T
This collection of essays and other materials grows from a series of interdisciplinary projects involving more than 150 faculty and a significant number of students from Mercer University's 11 college
Baptist Principles is intended to serve three segments of our Baptist life. It is first of all for individuals, pastors, and laity who want to do serious thinking about Baptist principles, work throug
The political corruption, gambling, and murder that nearly brought down an Alabama town during the Depression. In the first chronological and gripping narrative of the events that crippled Phenix C
Will Sammy Levitt's bar mitzvah plans be derailed by a Christian pilgrimage? Cliff Graubart in his first novel writes a humorous and touching tale of 1950s Washington Heights Jewish life in The Curiou
Christianity: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological, Guide for Students is a mutual effort by Kathy Lopez, Don Penny, Glenn Jonas, and Adam English, the faculty of the Religion department at Campbe
Psychologists have recognized that theologian Paul Tillich has something to say to them about the human condition. Cooper (psychology, St. Louis Community College) makes a case that the political crit
From wherever Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) is read, scholars of philosophy comment on the three works he published pseudonymously. Their topics include paratextualism in Prefaces and contemporary liter
The long-forgotten work of a New England journalist is reprinted here, recreating his photographs of a war-ravaged South and reexamining his interviews with freed slaves, Confederate veterans, traveli
Researcher, scholar, and Eufaula native Alsobrook painstakingly and lovingly recounts the history of Eufaula, Alabama between the years 1890 and 1945. The reader gets a real taste of a mill town at
Brinsfield, a retired army chaplain and adjunct professor of theology, examines the functions and roles of 238 chaplains who accompanied regiments of the North and South at the Battle of Gettysburg du
