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Addresses Soren Kierkegaard's political theology from a variety of perspectives, focusing on his specific views of the political and its implications for the expression of Christian love in the context of civil society in Kierkegaard's time as well as in contemporary society in America.

Crawford Howell Toy was professor of Old Testament at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1869-1879. In 1879, he was forced to resign from the Seminary over his views of evolution. In 1880, he was hired by Harvard University as the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages. Parsons narrates Toy's life in two parts.

In an age of increasing cultural polarization that has led many people to consider retreat into enclaves of the like-minded, this book seeks to persuade that we need better quality conversations across ideological camps, and that the writings of Soren Kierkegaard and Rene Girard provide very effective tools for facilitating such conversations.

On foot and in a leaky canoe, award-winning poet and naturalist Thorpe Moeckel meanders for a year through the fragmented forests of the Eno and Haw watersheds. He seeks the alive interiors of a world covered over in asphalt, seeks to shed its hard exterior and "wonder the woods". In doing so he makes a record both physical and numinous.

Late in life, writing his memoirs, John Bell Hood wrote, "no man is justly entitled to be considered a great General, unless he has won his spurs." Hood did not explain how an officer earned his spurs, but he didn't need to. In this work, the first of two volumes, Hood's rise in rank is chronicled.

Presents the Civil War correspondence of the Haskells, a prominent family of Abbeville, South Carolina. This outstanding collection of eloquent, compelling letters is unusual in that it includes the correspondence of seven brothers in arms.

For years, the Mercer University men's basketball team had been building toward the NCAA Tournament only to come up short in agonizing fashion several times. But the Bears finally got over the hump to reach the tournament and take part in March Madness in 2014, and in doing so, they put their previous close calls behind them.

Doug Kershaw's musical career as a fiddler, songwriter, and singer has spanned over seventy years. His is a classic American story of how one young man rose from poverty in the swamps to the stage at Carnegie Hall. Despite the pitfalls known to many entertainers, Kershaw's life was filled with exciting and comic adventures.

Utilizes history, personal interviews, and collected documents to aid in the telling of the story of the humble beginnings and career of the original Southern rock band. Michael Buffalo Smith spoke with former Allman Brothers members, producers, engineers, roadies, and fans to create this tribute to Macon, Georgia's greatest rock and roll export.

This compilation of data, along with historic information, presents the most comprehensive picture of Cumberland Island's flora, fauna, geology, and ecology to date. This volume will satisfy a general interest in the ecology of Cumberland and other Georgia barrier islands. New information on individual species is presented.

In Cold Blood remains one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century, a study of crime and a polemic against capital punishment that is without peer. Truman Capote purportedly considered it the ""first nonfiction novel"", ushering in the era of New Journalism. This study focuses pon the voices left out of In Cold Blood.

A story told through the authentic voice of Jessie, a precocious girl raised in the Blue Ridge Foothills of Southern Appalachia after World War II. Saddled with an alcoholic narcissistic father and a passive mother, Jessie is charged with mothering her siblings as generational curses and poverty never cease to overwhelm her family.

Homer sends the hero of The Odyssey to interview the dead in order to discover his destiny. The poems of R.T. Smith's Summoning Shades pursue a similar mission, bringing to life figures from history and recollection, all rendered with careful attention to the idiom, customs, emotions, and ironies of their time and region.

Features the transcription of the records of Meherrin, an eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Baptist church on the frontier of Virginia in rural Lunenburg County. Despite its backwater location and relatively small congregation, Meherrin played a significant role in the rise of Separate Baptists and their influence in Virginia.

An innovative book, When Fiction and Philosophy Meet explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor from the Southern state of Georgia, USA.

In 1817, the English architect William Jay arrived in Savannah, Georgia. In the next four years, he designed several public buildings and private residences in Savannah and Charleston. All of his work was remarkable, yet only vague recollections of Jay survived. This biography of Jay describes his place in a vibrant but volatile world.

In the 1980s former President Jimmy Carter took up painting in his free time. Using his home woodworking shop as a studio, Carter has since produced more than a hundred works. This book showcases in one place for the first time, more than fifty of his favorite paintings. The works are accompanied by his own written narrative.

A contribution to the theme of Baptist revivals. This book explores the central role played by revivalism for Baptist life in the US, Canada, Britain, Continental Europe, and the Majority world. The book offers 25 studies of Baptists and their revivals, describing individual revivals and evaluating issues of gender, race, emotion, and charisma.

Paul Tillich's account of "ultimate concern" has been crucial for his theological legacy. It is a concept that has been taken up and adapted by many theologians in an array of subfields. This volume places Tillich's theology in conversation with theories of radical embodiment.

Local church history is important. "Lived religion" at the ground level provides a fuller picture of the story of the Christian faith. The fifty-year story of Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, is one of those narratives that richly adds to our understanding of how faith has been lived in a particular setting.

Offers a unique study of the earliest recorded "discourses" of the Buddha, taking an approach that is at once psychological, philosophical, and literary. In a market abundant with how-to books for spiritual practitioners, this book offers original readings of some of the most powerful of the Buddha's teachings.

Over the past few decades, the gulf coast of Louisiana has suffered its share of natural disasters. From hurricanes, to floods, to the gradual destruction caused by coastal erosion, the poems in No Brother, This Storm serve as archives of the hope and resilience found throughout the region.

Provides a first-hand, intimate account of the trials and tribulations of climbing five well-known mountains or trails, all from the perspective of a middle-aged, "regular guy" who has survived cancer and has kept on climbing. Schaeffer's recounting of his experiences is both wonderfully written and inspiring.

In the summer of 1864, the ongoing war against the Union leaves the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia jittery and dispirited. Told in historically rich, poetic detail, this story peels back the veneer of gentility to reveal the humanity of its characters at a time when Southern society is about to topple.

Features in-depth interviews with many of the stars that came out of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas during the hey-day of Southern Rock. From members of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet, to Outlaws, 38 Special, Widespread Panic, and many others, the Southern Rock world is chronicled and celebrated.

This story alternates between present-day North Georgia and the 1970s and is the story of a bar band as told primarily through the eyes of its lead guitar player, Blanchard Shankles, and its bass player, John Covey. Each chapter is built around an original song in the band's repertoire plus an iconic song from the archives of rock and roll.

Presents a collection of familiar essays. The author comes from the generation in which girls read books about horses, and boys, about dogs, and his prose is old-fashioned and marvellously clear. He is a meanderer, and Parade's End celebrates the passing drift of days and the quiet miracles of living.

Provides a collection of interviews with many of the stars, producers, and associates of the 1970s Southern record label, Capricorn, which was founded in the heart of Macon, Georgia in 1969. Capricorn Rising also includes memorials to the two men who founded the Capricorn studio and record label, Phil Walden and Frank Fenter.

In Memory & Complicity, we feel Georgia red clay under Eve Hoffman's bare feet on the dairy farm where she grew up; walk with her though an exhibit of one hundred and fifty postcards of lynchings. We see a girl in a yellow dress at the synagogue her great-grandparents founded-the synagogue bombed four hours later by white racists. We see black-faced jockeys in front yards.