Mobilizing for the Common Good

Mobilizing for the Common Good
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781617038600
ISBN-13 : 1617038601
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Book Synopsis Mobilizing for the Common Good by : Peter Slade

Download or read book Mobilizing for the Common Good written by Peter Slade and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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