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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Bartram’s Living Legacy .........................1Dorinda G. Dallmeyer

The Flower Seeker ..................................2Philip Lee Williams

Christmas Gift! .......................................3Ferrol Sams

Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim Wayfarers ...........................4

L. Lamar Nisly

Misfits and Marble Fauns ......................5Wendy Piper

The Letters of Austin Warren ................6George Panichas†

“I Will Give Them One More Shot” ......7George Winston Martin

The Tifts of Georgia ...............................8John Fair

America’s Historically Black Colleges ....9Bobby L. Lovett

One Step Ahead of Hitler ....................10Fred Gross

Five Big Mountains ..............................11David Schaeffer

Sports and Religion Series ...................12

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Sport .........................13

Steven J. Overman

Hidden Mark ........................................14John Killinger

Peter’s Last Sermon ..............................15James M. Dawsey

Subjectivity and Religious Truth in the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard .......16

Merigala Gabriel

Mercer Kierkegaard Series ..................17

Why Kierkegaard Matters ...................18Marc A. Jolley

International Kierkegaard Commentary Series ..............................19

The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists .................................................20

Scott Bryant

The Life and Letters of Emily Chubbuck Judson .......................21

George Tooze

The James N. Griffith Series in Baptist Studies ..................................22

Featured Backlist Titles ..................23–31

Cover Art by Philip Juras, artistAnthony Shoals, Evening, Broad River GA, 2009

Announcing...

Mercer University Press Book Awards

The Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry The award is given to the best manuscript that exemplifies the

poetic language and vision of the author.

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in a Southern context. This category includes both novels and short stories.

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condition in a Southern context. This category includes memoir, natural history, essays, and other genres of nonfiction.

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More than two centuries have passed since the publication of William Bartram’s Travels in 1791. That his book remains in print would be notable enough, but Bartram’s work was visionary. It fostered the develop-ment of a truly American strain of natural history. His writings transcend-ed scientific boundaries to deeply influ-ence Coleridge, Wordsworth, and other Romantic poets. And his text continues to ignite the imaginations of Southern-ers who love nature.

Bartram’s ability to marry science with poetry ensured Travels a world-wide audience for the last 200 years. William Bartram was a cultural histo-rian, too, carefully recording the way in which the Indians used the land along with the changes wrought by European settlers.

Being on the road with Bartram involves cliffhanger encounters with dreadful weather, charismatic preda-

tors, and even deadlier humans. And throughout the book, Bartram reveals a deep spiritual connection to nature as a manifestation of divine Creation. Bar-tram’s holism lays the foundation for major themes of modern nature writing as well as environmental philosophy.

In this unique anthology, for the first time Travels is joined with essays acknowledging the debt Southern nature writers owe the man called the “South’s Thoreau.” We hope this book will introduce a new generation of environmentally minded Southerners to Bartram’s timeless work, not only standing on its own but also interpreted through passionate, personal essays by some of the region’s finest nature writ-ers. Rather than wallowing in nostal-gia for the long-gone world Bartram describes, this anthology provides us with a starting point for reconstructing and reclaiming the natural heritage of the South.

Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, native of Macon, Georgia, has worked in the fields of environmental science, international law, and environmental ethics. With other regional nature writers, she created the Southern Nature Project to encourage writing aimed at conserving the Southern environment for generations yet to come. She has twice received the Philip Reed Memorial Award for Out-standing Writing about the Southern Environment. A devoted naturalist, Dorinda and her husband David live on 50 acres in rural Madison County, Georgia.

Philip Juras, a native of Augusta, Georgia, now lives in Athens, and paints the landscapes of travel, but focuses primarily on remnant natural landscapes that offer a glimpse of the Southeast before European settlement.

Bartram’s Living Legacy

The Travels and theNature of the South

William Bartram†

Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, editor

C o n t r i b u t o r s

J a n i s s e R a y

B i L L B e L L e v i L L e

J o h n L a n e

R o g e R P i n c k n e y

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D i x o n B y n u m

T h o m a s h a L L o c k

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T h o m a s R a i n c R o w e

w h i T g i B B o n s

F e a t u r i n g O r i g i n a l A r t w o r k b y

P h i L i P J u R a s

A unique anthology of Bartram’s Travels and new essays on his legacies

SEPTEMBER 2010 | LITERARY CRITICISM

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Philip Lee Williams is the author

of fourteen published books and

has written about the natural world

most of his career and taught

nature writing at the University of

Georgia, from which he retired in

March 2010. He is the winner of

numerous literary awards, includ-

ing the national Michael Shaara

Prize for his 2004 novel, A Distant

Flame. Among his earlier books

from Mercer University Press are In

the Morning: Reflections from First

Light (essays), The Campfire Boys

(novel), and a collection of poetry,

Elegies for the Water.

William bartram’s Travels, published in 1791, remains a seminal book for understanding the American South, its flora, fauna, and people. Now, acclaimed poet and novelist Philip Lee Williams, who has known Bartram’s work almost since child-hood, has written what will surely be acclaimed as one of the finest long poems ever to come out of the South.

The Flower Seeker is an epic poem that follows the young William Bar-tram on his journey in the American South and during his old age in his father’s gardens. It is truly a southern Odyssey, using techniques of fiction and poetry to get deeply inside one of the most remarkable men ever to strap on a pair of boots in America.

Written in twenty-four cantos, the book digs deep into the mind and heart of Bartram, who was also an ac-claimed visual artist and naturalist.

The Flower Seeker begins with an unusual but regular stanzaic form but quickly changes as Bartram changes during his four-year ride on horseback around the South.

Following in the shadows of other epic poems such as Ezra Pound’s Cantos, Paterson of William Carlos Williams, or The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson, The Flower Seeker is a dazzling compendium of poetic devices and approaches. In it, Williams uses the Travels as the basis for an expanding and imaginary universe that describes Bartram’s interior world as much as the one he rode through.

Long, complex, and yet immensely readable, The Flower Seeker packs an intellectual and emotional punch like few other long poems in the American tradition. It is surely destined to be-come an enduring classic of Southern and even American literature.

The Flower seekerAn Epic Poem of William Bartram Philip Lee Williams

T I T L E S B y T H I S A u T H O R

Elegies for the Water

PoemsPhilip Lee Williams

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Campfire BoysA NovelPhilip Lee WilliamsCloth | $26.00t | H788 978-0-88146-153-4

In the MorningReflections from First LightPhilip Lee WilliamsCloth | $23.00t | H717 978-0-88146-022-3

A work of breathless imagination and pure genius—CD includes original music composed by the author and a recording of the Keowee River in South Carolina

SEPTEMBER 2010 | PoETRY

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Christmas Gift!, a master story-teller’s moving personal reminiscence, discovers the very essence of the holiday season. The wonder and excitement of childhood combine with the wisdom and reverence of maturity to produce a tale rich in tradition and continuity.

Interweaving his memories of boy-hood Christmases in the dark days of the Depression and the details of present-day holidays with his grand-children, Ferrol Sams demonstrates the deep, inescapable role of rituals in our lives and the importance of passing them on to each succeeding generation.

Rich with details as true today as they were more than a half-century ago when Sams was growing up, Christmas Gift! is a grandfather’s loving preservation of an important ritual of his childhood.

Strapped for material resources adequate to their generous spirits, members of the Sams household would greet each other with the joy-ous cry of “Christmas gift!” in order to share the tidings of the season and celebrate their connection.

Fifty years later, in a moving and powerful rite of passage, Sams initi-ates his grandchildren in the ways of family and tradition by sharing his story and by taking them to their great-grandfather’s grave early on a clear Christmas morning to shout forth the ancient cry: “Christmas gift! Christmas gift!”

Sams is in rare form in this tale that will warm hearts, create laughter and tears, and earn a place in the center of Christmas celebrations for years to come.

Ferrol Sams is a physician, humorist

storyteller, and best-selling novelist

and is the author of seven books.

Most notable is his trilogy of novels

in which an eccentric and quixotic

hero, Porter Osborne, Jr., mirrors

Sams’ own Georgia boyhood in

Fayette County. All of his works

are rooted in the oral traditions of

Southern humor and folklore. Sams

and his wife have been in private

practice together in Fayetteville since

1951, and in 1987 they established

the Fayette Medical Center.

christmas gift! Ferrol Sams

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Down TownA Novel

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Whiskey Before Breakfast

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Masters and SavagesA NovelJames DawseyCloth | $26.00t | H787978-0-88146-141-1

A grandfather’s loving preservation of a childhood ritual—Includes a reading by the author

SEPTEMBER 2010 | MEMoIR

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L. Lamar Nisly (Ph.D. University of

Delaware) is currently professor of

English and chair of the English and

Language department at Bluffton

University (Ohio), where he has

taught for thirteen years. Besides

numerous academ ic and popular

articles, he published Impossible to

Say: Representing Religious Mystery

in Fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick,

and O’Connor.

Flannery o’Connor, tim Gautreaux, and Walker Percy, are all Catholic writers from the South—and seem to embody very fully both parts of that label. yet as quickly becomes clear in their writing, their fiction employs markedly dif-ferent tones and modes of addressing their audience. O’Connor seems intent on shocking her reader, whom she an-ticipates will be hostile to her deepest beliefs. Gautreaux gently and humor-ously engages his reader, inviting his expected sympathetic audience to embrace the characters’ needed moral growth. Percy satirically lampoons an array of social ills and failings in the Church, as he tries to get his audience laughing with him while he makes his deadly serious point about the flaws he finds in the Church and larger culture.

Why do these three writers assume such divergent images of their audience?

Why do texts by three writers who each embrace their Southern locale and their Catholic beliefs seem to have so little in common? Nisly helps readers understand these authors’ fic-tion by examining the role that place and time had in shaping each author’s idea of an audience—and, by exten-sion, his or her manner of addressing that audience. more specifically, Nisly focuses on each author’s experience of Catholic community and each author’s placement in relation to the Second vatican Council. Linking together biographical information and a read-ing of their fiction, Nisly argues that O’Connor’s, Gautreaux’s, and Percy’s sense of audience has been shaped in significant ways by each author’s own local experience of Catholicism in his or her home region as well as the larger, global changes of vatican II that transformed Roman Catholicism.

wingless chickens, Bayou catholics, and Pilgrim wayfarers Constructions of Audience and Tone in O’Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy

L. Lamar Nisly


Sober Cannibals, Drunken ChristiansMelville, Kierkegaard,

and Tragic optimism in Polarized Works

Jamie LorentzenPaper | $35.00t | P409

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Shakespeare’s Philosopher KingReading The Tragedy of King LearGuy Story BrownCloth | $45.00t | H801987-0-88146-185-5

Inside the Church of Flannery

o’ConnorSacrament,

Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction

Joanne Halleran McMullen and

Jon Parrish Peede, editors

Paper | $22.95t | P380

978-0-88146-138-1

Writing Against GodLanguage as Message in the Literature of Flannery o’ConnorJoanne Halleran McMullenPaper | $25.00t | P179987-0-86554-620-2

Southern writers and their differing Catholic beliefs

JANuARY 2011 | LITERARY CRITICISM

FLANNERY o’CoNNoR SERIES

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this book offers a fresh approach to Hawthorne and O’Connor as writers of the American romance. Drawing from a contemporary philo-sophical context, it applies Gadamer’s cultural critique of modernity to the moral and artistic visions conveyed through the authors’ use of the literary form of romance.

Hawthorne defines the romance form in terms of its freedom from the realism demanded by the novel. The writer of romance creates a neutral territory between the actual and imaginary, inner and outer reality. The world of the romance is therefore one of the author’s own making, freed from the constraints of objective reality.

O’Connor adopts Hawthorne’s romance in her own use of the grotesque and for a similar ethical purpose. As a Catholic Christian, she

distorts the real in order to reveal the mystery that surrounds existence. O’Connor’s secular reformers, liberal intellectuals, and nihilists attempt to manipulate the world of matter in order to improve or remake the world to their own liking. Like Hawthorne’s characters, they are confronted by the mystery of the romance to be recalled to the reality of their own finitude.

In the field of hermeneutics, Ga-damer makes claims that are perti-nent to the narratives of Hawthorne and O’Connor. Against the dualism of modern method, he conceives of knowledge as a “fusion of horizons.” This dialogic nature of knowledge calls into question the prevailing scientism of post-Enlightenment modernity. Like the fiction writers, he asserts the mystery of aesthetic experience against the will-to-power that, he argues, is characteristic of modern method.

Wendy Piper teaches in the

Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

at Dartmouth College a nd specializes

in American literature and first-year

writing.

misfits and marble fauns

Religion and Romance in Hawthorne and O’Connor

Wendy Piper


Flannery o’Connor

The Woman, the Thinker,

the VisionaryTed R. Spivey

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery o’ConnorChristina Bieber LakeCloth | $35.00t | H680978-0-86554-943-2

Experimentation and VersatilityThe Early Novels and Short Fiction

of Fred ChapellCasey Clabough

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ElementsThe Novels of James DickeyCasey ClaboughCloth | $39.95s | H558978-0-86554-743-8

Where Hawthorne and O’Connor connect

FEBRuARY 2011 | LITERARY CRITICISM

FLANNERY o’CoNNoR SERIES



Austin Warren† (1899–1986), a

revered university teacher and a

compelling literary critic, taught for

most of his career at major Mid-

western universities, before retiring to

Providence, Rhode Island, where he

lived the last sixteen years of his life.

George Panichas† (1930–2010) was a

university teacher and a moralist literary

critic and for twenty-five years the editor

of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. He

is the editor of In Continuity: The Last

Essays of Austin Warren (Mercer, 1996)

and author of Joseph Conrad: His Moral

Vision (Mercer, 2005).

A beloved university teacher and an esteemed literary critic, Austin Warren (1899–1986) was also an extraordinary epistolary artist. In its parts and whole, this calling ultimate-ly became an aesthetic, social, moral, and spiritual discipline that demand-ed of him steadfast effort and faith. During a long lifetime, he produced a steady stream of letters to friends and colleagues, adjutants and auditors; all his letters evinced the concerns of a fully engaged writer seeking and find-ing his vocation. These letters are not simply those of a man of letters, but also of a man in search of his interior self. Self-examination is an integral facet that one discovers in them, though subjective absorptions do not blemish an ardent appeal for dialogue, for connection and understanding.

The Letters of Austin Warren enables a reader to perceive what epistolary art signifies, and to appreciate the re-habilitative powers and possibilities of communication and connection that it generates. A reader who enters into this unique epistolary community will find there a rich and incessant flow of ideas, seriously and strenuously deliberated, as well as to hear conver-sations that are vigorous, dignified, and sapient in tone and content. One who pores over these letters will take an intimate part in the works and days of Austin Warren, man of Letters and Epistolary Artist.

The Letters of austin warrenEdited and Selected, with an Introduction and Notes

Austin Warren†

George Panichas†, editor


Growing Wings to ovecome Gravity

Criticism as the Pursuit of Virtue

George A. Panichas†

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Joseph ConradHis Moral VisionGeorge A. Panichas†

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In ContinuityThe Last Essays of Austin WarrenGeorge A. Panichas†

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An intimate glimpse into the life of an extraordinary man

DECEMBER 2010 | LITERARY

6 x 9 | 600 pp. | Cloth, $55.00t | 978-0-88146-220-3 | H819


beginning with the tumultuous events leading to Georgia’s seces-sion from the union, “I Will Give Them One More Shot” follows the 1st Georgia volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel James N. Ramsey, as it travels from its forma-tion at macon, Georgia, to Pensacola, Richmond, Western (now West) virginia and the Shenandoah valley. Ramsey’s regiment meets with initial success in a minor skirmish in the Allegheny mountains at Laurel Hill, but then is involved in a disastrous retreat and rear guard fights at Kalers Ford and Corricks Ford, during which six companies are cut off from the army and become lost in the rugged Alleghenies, starving to the point of contemplating cannibalism. Serving under General Robert E. Lee at Cheat mountain, the regiment finds itself involved in a friendly fire incident, then later fights well in the Confed-

erate victory at Greenbriar River. Subsequently sent to the Shenandoah valley to serve under General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, the 1st endures horrible conditions in the winter ice and snow as the regiment marches to Bath, Hancock, and Romney. Left in fetid and isolated winter quarters in Romney, the army to which the Geor-gians belong comes near to mutiny.

The last two chapters review what happened to the soldiers and officers of the 1st after they mustered out in march 1862, concluding with the fate of prominent characters and sites. Appendices list the commands under which the 1st Georgia served during major events in its year of service, casualties in the unit, and a roster of the 1,331 men who served with the regiment.

George Winston Martin is an

independent scholar who resides

in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Martin has pursued a lifelong inter-

est in family genealogy and the War

Between the States. He participated in

American Civil War reenactments for

eighteen years as a member of the 7th

Florida Infantry (recreated). He gradu-

ated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

University of Daytona Beach, Florida.

“i will give Them one more shot”

Ramsey’s 1st Regiment Georgia volunteers

George Winston Martin


“Going Back the Way They Came”

The PhilipsGeorgia Legion

Cavalry BattalionRichard M. Coffman

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GriswoldvilleWilliam Harris BraggPaper | $30.00t | P396978-0-88146-168-8

Ghosts and Shadows of

AndersonvilleEssays on the Secret

Social Historiesof America’s

Deadliest PrisonRobert S. Davis

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To Honor These MenA History of the Phillips Georgia Legion Infantry BattalionRichard M. Coffman and Kurt C. GrahamCloth | $40.00t | H733 978-0-88146-060-5

Follow Ramsey’s 1st Regiment from war to civilian life

DECEMBER 2010 | CIVIL WAR

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John Fair, a native of Waynesboro,

Pennsylvania, was educated at

Juniata College (B.A.), Wake Forest

University (M.A.), and Duke University

(Ph.D.). He held teaching appoint-

ments in Pennsylvania, Virginia,

Maine, and Alabama, prior to coming

to Georgia College where he has

been professor of History and gradu-

ate coordinator since 1997.

this unique book addresses the under-analyzed subject of internal migration in American historiography by showing the impact of eight genera-tions of a family from New England on the development of Southern Georgia from the eighteenth to the end of the twentieth centuries. Focusing on cross-regional influences, The Tifts of Georgia sheds new light on such traditional topics as paternalism, cultural assimi-lation, and race relations. Originally from mystic, Connecticut, the Tifts migrated to Key West, Florida, where they profited from the wrecking trade, set up business operations at various points along the eastern coast of the united States, and eventually made a significant impact on some of the less-developed areas of Georgia.

The most important member of the family was Nelson Tift, a pioneer businessman who founded the city of Albany, Georgia, in the 1830s and

played a major role on behalf of his adopted state during the Civil War and Reconstruction. His enterprises were often coordinated with his brother Asa in Key West. Their nephew, Henry Harding Tift, founded Tifton and Tift County, and Tift College in Forsyth was named for Henry’s wife, Bessie, a major benefactor. Later Tifts were not only involved in the continued devel-opment of Albany and Tifton but made significant contributions to the econ-omy and civic life of macon, Atlanta, and other communities.

The Tifts brought Connecticut yankee values to the South but were in turn transformed into Southerners.

The Tifts of Georgia is richly illustrat-ed with charts, maps, and original photographs. This history of an important Georgia family should be of special interest to professional and amateur historians, sociologists, cul-tural anthropologists, and genealogists.

The Tifts of georgia Connecticut yankees in King Cotton’s Court

John Fair


The Governorsof Georgia

Third Edition, 1754–2004

James F. CookPaper | $22.00t | P305

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A Heart forAny FateThe Biography of Richard Brevard Russell, Sr.Sally RussellCloth | $35.00t | H628978-0-86554-957-9

Judge Harleyand His Boys

The Langdale StoryJohn E. LancasterCloth | $35.00t | H622

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Empire Stateof the SouthGeorgia Historyin Documents and EssaysChristopher C. MeyersCloth | $50.00s | H758978-0-88146-110-7Paper | $28.00t | P377978-0-88146-111-4

Richly illustrated history of an important Georgia family

oCToBER 2010 | HISToRY/GEoRGIA

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Finally, in one-volume, this narrative provides a comprehensive history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and universities (HBCu’s). The book concludes that race, the Civil Rights movements, and black and white philanthropy had much affect on the development of these minority institutions. Northern white philan-thropy had much to do with the start and maintenance of the nation’s HB-Cus from 1837 into the 1940s. Even from 1950 to 1970, HBCus depended upon financial support of philanthrop-ic groups, benevolent societies, and federal and state government agencies, but the survival of HBCus became de-pendent mostly on their own creative responses to the changing environment of higher education.

The book shows how black colleges began that arduous nineteenth-century journey, providing higher education for former slaves and their African-American descendants—as well as for other students, struggling for institu-tional survival most of the time, but adapted themselves to new missions and adjusted to recent and challeng-ing developments in American higher education.

Far from being just institutions of higher education, the HBCus have helped to shape our culture and society.

Bobby L. Lovett was born in Memphis

(TN), where he received his public school

education and completed Booker T.

Washington High School. He earned

the B.A. at Arkansas A. M. & N. State

College (today’s University of Arkansas

campus at Pine Bluff), and the M.A.,

and Ph.D. degrees at the University of

Arkansas in Fayetteville. He taught in

the Memphis Public Schools (1969–

1970), Eureka College (1970–1973),

and served in administrative and faculty

positions at Tennessee State University,

where he currently is senior professor

of History.

america’s historically

black colleges A Narrative History, 1837–2009

Bobby L. Lovett


Pursuing a PromiseA History of African

Americans at Georgia Southern university

F. Erik BrooksCloth | $35.00t | H700

978-0-88146-018-6

This Georgia RisingEducation, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940sPatrick NovotnyCloth | $45.00t | H744978-0-88146-088-9

“Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus”

The original Fisk Jubilee Singers

and Christian Reconstruction,

1871–1978Toni P. AndersonCloth | $45.00t | H785

978-0-88146-112-1

undauntedby the FightSpelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957–1967Harry G. LefeverCloth | $55.00s | H695978-0-86554-976-0Paper | $25.00t | P292978-0-86554-938-8

America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Series will examine the varying role of these important institutions throughout the the Civil

Rights struggle and American history as a whole

JANuARY 2011 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN STuDIES

AMERICA’S HISToRICALLY BLACK CoLLEGES & uNIVERSITIES SERIES

6 x 9 | 350 pp. | Cloth, $35.00t | 978-0-88146-215-9 | H814 | Index | Bibliography | Illustrations


Fred Gross, a graduate of New York

University, was a reporter for the

Journal-Courier, a daily newspaper

in New Haven, Connecticut, and has

been a public-relations specialist for

nearly thirty years, specializing in

education. Gross has been actively

involved in the Jewish community in

Louisville, Kentucky. He has taught

a Holocaust curriculum to Sunday

school students, and for years has

also shared his story with middle,

high school and college students.

Fred Gross knew much about the history of the Holocaust, but he didn’t know his own, being a young Jewish child during those terrible years. In the late 1980s, he asked his mother to tell him the story of his family’s flight from the German invasion of Bel-gium and the Nazi policies that would become the Holocaust. Later, his two older brothers added their memories. But this story is not simply an account of the years spent one step ahead of Hitler. It is about a little boy then grown man coming to know his own story and realizing the tenuousness of memory.

most of the Grosses’ flight takes place in France during its defeat and collaboration with the Nazis, round-ing up more than 75,000 Jews for deportation to the death camps.

Gross and his family made it through these anguished years be-

cause of their fortitude and ingenuity and the help of brave men and women of other faiths, reverently referred to as The Righteous among the Nations, who risked their lives standing up to their collaborationist government. One Step Ahead of Hitler is a story of survival told in words and in photographs of a journey beginning in Antwerp and ending with his freedom in America.

“It is an important memoir,” David P. Gushee, Distinguished Professor of Christian Ethics at mercer university and author of Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, writes in the foreword. “Some of the most shameful mo-ments of German, French, Swiss—and human—history are recorded here, not for the first time, but in a deeply personal way by someone who experi-enced their effects as a small child.”

one step ahead of hitler A Jewish Child’s Journey through France

Fred Gross


Elie WieselA ReligiousBiography

Frederick L. DowningCloth | $29.00t | H752

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Good NewsAfter AuschwitzChristian Faith in a Post-Holocaust WorldJohn K. Roth and Carol RittnerCloth | $39.95t | H520978-0-86554-701-8

Jewish Images in the Christian

ChurchArt as the Mirror of

the Jewish-Christian Conflict, 200–1250 Ce

Henry ClamanCloth | $45.00s | H514

978-0-86554-695-0

Religious Faith, Torture, and our National SoulDavid P. Gushee, editorand Jillian Hickman Zimmer and J. Drew Zimmer, coeditorsPaper | $28.00t | P411978-0-88146-203-6

One Step Ahead of Hitler...is an adventure you will soon not forget...It could be a novel, but is true. This is a tale worth telling, and here it is told particularly well.—Jewish Book World

SEPTEMBER 2010 | HISToRY/HoLoCAuST

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New in Paper

What does it take for a regular guy to climb some of the highest mountains in the world? Five Big Mountains takes you there, instantly placing the reader and the author on a steep glacier on Pico de Orizaba with equipment trouble and the tough decision any high altitude climber inevitably faces—should he turn back or keep going to the summit?

The central theme of the book is that with proper preparation, care-ful planning, persistent training, and the best guides, even an amateur with little mountaineering experience can climb and reach the summits of some of the most famous mountains in the world, though there are risks involved that need to be minimized.

Written in the first person, Five Big Mountains takes the reader into the mind of a regular guy trying to reach the summit of four of the famous Sev-en Summits, as well as his first high-altitude climb of a steep, glaciated mexican volcano. The book tells what climbing is really like, the struggles and the triumphs, the emotions and the dangers, moment by moment.

The reader is taken to Russia, Af-rica, Antarctica, South America, and mexico. Along the way, the reader is able to travel with and discover the local flavor of each exotic or not so exotic venue.

Color photos help visualize the glorious majesty of the peaks, but the narrative provides the nitty-gritty of the author’s daily challenges on the mountains.

David Schaeffer is a trial attorney in

Atlanta, Georgia.Five Big

mountainsA Regular Guy’s Guide to Climbing

Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, vinson, Elbrus, and Orizaba

David Schaeffer


Career in Crisis Paul “Bear” Bryant

and the 1971Season of Change

John David BrileyCloth | $29.95t | H719

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LegendsGeorgians Who Lived Impossible DreamsGene AsherCloth | $25.00t | H696 978-0-86554-977-7

Game Day and God

Football, Faith, and Politics in the

American SouthEric Bain-Selbo

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High altitude adventure, struggle, and triumph

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sportsAND RELIGIoN

12 mERCER uNIvERSIT y PRESS FALL/WINTER 2010 Sports and Religion Series

The Sports and Religion Series

explores the connection of religion

and sports. The series includes books

that examine sports through various

diciplines and cultural forms (literature,

history, music, poetry, among others)

and that consider how sports chal-

lenge, inspire, or function as religion.

Joseph L. Price, series editor

1. From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion Joseph L. Price, editor 978-0-86554-961-6 | P308 | $25.00t | Paper

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Allen E. Hye 978-0-86554-931-9 | H675 | $40.00s | Cloth 978-0-86554-939-5 | P288 | $25.00t | Paper

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steven overman explores the concordant values of the Protestant ethic, capitalism, and sport by applying German scholar max Weber’s seminal thesis. Weber dem-onstrated a relationship between the Protestant ethic and a form of eco-nomic behavior he labeled the “spirit of capitalism.”

The work introduces readers to the doctrines and values arising out of the Protestant Reformation, notably the strong affirmation of a “calling” and the influences of worldly asceticism.

This account prefaces a chronicle of the Puritan experience, focusing on the framing of work and play in light of an intense unease with human plea-sure and idleness. The united States is portrayed as the quintessential Prot-estant ethic society.

The book proposes “seven Prot-estant virtues” built upon rational asceticism and the work ethic that

comprise the Protestant ethic. The spirit of capitalism is presented as a derivative of this ethic and a major force in shaping American institu-tions, notably organized sport.

The second part of the book dis-cusses the spirit of American sport as it is manifested in values the author identifies as the American sport ethic: seven constructs that correspond to the seven Protestant “virtues.” Each of these constructs, e.g., achieved status, competitiveness, is examined as it has influenced organized sport. The discussion encompasses youth sport, college sport, professional sport, and American influence on the modern Olympics. The book then analyzes sport as a form of consumer capital-ism. Professional baseball is high-lighted as the prototype of American sport as it evolved from amateur clubs to business enterprises.

Steven J. overman attended Purdue

and Washington State University. Most

of his teaching career was spent at

Jackson State University in Mississippi.

The Protestant ethic and the

spirit of sportHow Calvinism and Capitalism

Shaped America’s Games

Steven J. Overman


International Journal of

Religion and Sport,

Volume 1, 2009Christopher J. Anderson

and Gordon Marino, editors

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The influence of capitalism on organized sport in America

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John Killinger is a widely respected

minister, professor, and author who

has taught at such leading seminaries

as Vanderbilt, Princeton, Chicago, and

Claremont, and has been pastor of

large, distinguished churches, includ-

ing the First Congregational Church

of Los Angeles and Marble Collegiate

Church in New York City. He has been

a leader in the field of Theology and

Literature, and his book The Changing

Shape of Our Salvation was nomi-

nated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Well-known preacher and liter-ary scholar John Killinger has com-bined his talents to provide a revolu-tionary study of the Gospel of mark. On the basis of textual patterns he discovered in a Gospel long believed to be “naive” and “unstudied,” Kill-inger reveals evidence that the two calming-of-the-sea stories tradition-ally regarded as miracles are actually post-resurrection stories. This expla-nation not only accounts for the ab-sence of such stories at the end of the Gospel, where the other Gospels place them, but suggests that mark might actually be a Gnostic document, as the Gnostics believed in the resurrec-tion of Jesus but did not emphasize his physical resurrection.

A gnostic origin for mark also explains other long-standing enigmas in mark, including its high opinion of women (the Gnostics had women priests); the annoying stupidity of the disciples (they had trouble grasping the gnosis); the amazing recognition of Jesus’ real identity by a blind man; and the so-called messianic Secret (Gnostics wanted to conceal their rites and teachings from outsiders).

In this groundbreaking interpreta-tion of the Gospel of mark, Killinger has given us a reason to reassess the meaning and purpose of the Gospel of mark.

hidden mark Exploring Christianity’s Heretical Gospel

John Killinger


Acts Within Diverse Frames

of ReferenceThomas E. Phillips

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Contemporary Studies in ActsThomas E. PhillipsPaper | $35.00t | P386978-0-88146-145-9

Mercer Commentary on the New

TestamentWatson E. Mills and

Richard F. Wilson, general editors

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GospelsMercer Commentary on the BibleVolume 6Watson E. Mills and Richard F. Wilson, general editorsPaper | $25.00t | P138978-0-86554-511-3

Was the Gospel of Mark heretical?

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What Christian would not want to hear mark’s gospel as the first believers heard it? using the tools of modern scholarship, Peter’s Last Ser-mon takes seriously mark’s audience. The community would have heard rather than read the gospel. It would have encountered the story as a whole instead of piecemeal in short texts for sermons. missing would have been the static of matthew, Luke, and John.

As for the speaker? While most modern scholars table the question of authorship, the postapostolic writ-ers of the second and third centuries claim with one voice that (though penned by mark) the gospel actually went back to Peter. So to hear the gospel as did those early Christians was to hear it as if coming from him. Does it make a difference to our understanding of mark’s message if from Peter? yes. And the result is surprising.

Peter’s Last Sermon takes us on a journey through Roman and Jew-ish texts to meet the Jesus not of the modern Church but of Peter’s proclamation in Rome. Nero’s per-secution had left the community in crisis. What was Peter’s message for his time? Christ was different from expected, he said, but how?

James Dawsey shows that Christ broke the messianic expectations of his Galilean followers and the Jeru-salem religious elite of his day. And as the reader of Peter’s Last Sermon will see, he surprised mark’s hearers a generation later. The Gospel of mark still confronts us in new ways.

James M. Dawsey is the Wolfe Chair

and a professor of Religious Studies at

Emory & Henry College, Virginia. He

is the author of several works of theol-

ogy and history including The Lukan

Voice (Mercer University Press); From

Wasteland to Promised Land (Shep-

heard-Walwyn and Orbis Books); The

Confederados (University of Alabama

Press); and more than seventy other

monographs and articles in English,

Spanish, and Portuguese. A theologi-

cal novel, Masters and Savages, was

published by Mercer University Press in

2009. Dawsey is an ordained minister

in the South Carolina Annual Confer-

ence of the United Methodist Church.

Peter’s Last

sermonIdentity and Discipleship

in the Gospel of mark

James M. Dawsey


In Search of the New Testament Church

The Baptist StoryC. Douglas Weaver

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Strugglingwith GodAn Introduction to the PentateuchMark McEntirePaper | $25.00s | P336 978-0-88146-101-5

Acts and Pauline Writings

Mercer Commentary on the Bible,

Volume 7Watson E. Mills and

Richard F. Wilson, general editors

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Recalling a Story once ToldAn Intertextual Reading of the Psalter and the PentateuchJohn S. VassarCloth | $45.00t | H713978-0-88146-051-3

A fresh approach to the Gospel of Mark

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Merigala Gabriel is professor and

department chair of Philosophy at

Madras Christian College, India.

He earned a master of Philosophy

degree from Madras Christian Col-

lege and a doctoral degree from

the University of Madras, India. He

received a theological diploma from

the University of Geneva. Gabriel

was visiting professor at Georgia

Southern University, USA and has

done post-doctoral research at

St. Olaf College, USA.

Merigala Gabriel’s main objective is to thoroughly examine subjective truth, which is the core concept in Kierkegaard’s philosophy. Here Gabriel contrasts subjective truth with objective truth in order to highlight the significance of subjec-tive truth in its religious context and to bring out the inadequacy of objec-tive truth. The principle of absolute paradox connected with the subjective truth is also discussed. The study also aims to present a detailed analysis of the aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages that represent existential dialec-tic, to examine their interrelationship and to show how the religious mode of existence is the key to genuineness in real existence.

Care is taken to examine the dis-junction between reason and faith: to bring out the importance of “faith” in Christianity and to show the limita-tions of science as far as Christianity is concerned. Gabriel also addresses the relation between God and man. Finally, the importance of Kierkeg-aard’s thought and his contribution to the development of ”subjectivity and religious truth” are outlined.

subjectivity and Religious Truth in the Philosophy of søren kierkegaard Merigala Gabriel


Irigaray and Kierkegaard

on the Construction of the Self

Helene Tallon RussellPaper | $35.00t | P394

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Toward the Final CrossroadsA Festschrift for Edna and Howard HongJamie LorentzenCloth | $30.00t | H794978-0-88146-159-6

The Neither/Nor of the Second Sex

Kierkegaard on Women, Sexual Difference, and

Sexual RelationsCéline Léon

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Something About KierkegaardDavid F. Swenson

edited by Lillian

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Kierkegaard and subjective truth

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www.mupress .org 866-895-1472Mercer Kierkegaard Series 17

mercer kierkegaard seriesthis series is on everything Kierkegaard. As a companion to the International Kierkegaard Commen-tary series, this general series is open to any investigation of the life and work of Søren Kierkegaard, including studies on irony, scripture, myth, authorship, religion, politics, and culture.

The Concept of Anxiety in Søren KierkegaardArne Grøn Translated by Sinead Ladegaard KnoxCloth | $30.00t | H769

978-0-88146-126-8

Kierkegaard’s Socratic ArtBenjamin DaisePaper | $18.00s | P195

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The Biblical Kierkegaard: Reading by the Rule of FaithTimothy Houston PolkPaper | $21.95s | P157

978-0-86554-539-7

Kierkegaard’s MetaphorsJamie LorentzenCloth | $39.95s | H548

978-0-86554-731-5

The Toils of understanding: An Essay on Kierkegaard’s “The Present Age”Husain SarkarCloth | $30.00s | H492

978-0-86554-663-9

Marc A. Jolley is director of Mercer

University Press and senior lecturer

at Mercer University. He is the author

of Safe at Home: A Memoir of God,

Baseball, and Family.

why kierkegaard matters A Festschrift in Honor of Robert L. Perkins

Marc A. Jolley, editor

C o n t r i b u t o r s

wa n D a wa R R e n B e R R y

a n D R e w J . B u R g e s s

D a v i D c a i n

g e o R g e c o n n e L L

J o h n D a v e n P o R T

s T e P h e n n . D u n n i n g

c . s T e P h e n e va n s

m . J a m i e F e R R e i R a

s h e R i D a n h o u g h

J a m i e L o R e n T z e n

J a s o n a . m a h n

R o n a L D F. m a R s h a L L

e D wa R D F. m o o n e y

m . g . P i e T y

R o B e R T c . R o B e R T s

m e R o L D w e s T P h a L

Essays in honor of an extraordinary Kierkegaard scholar


Monographs on philosophers multiply daily but on occasion we must ask the question of why a par-ticular philosopher matters. When mercer university Press opened its doors more than thirty years ago, it committed itself to religious studies in general, and to several thinkers. One of those was Søren Kierkegaard. Now, as the Press concludes a major publishing event with the comple-tion of the International Kierkeg-aard Commentary, it seeks to honor the only series editor it has known: Robert Perkins.

The method of this honor is by asking Why Kierkegaard Matters.

Leading Kierkegaard scholars have contributed essays that range from the very personal and memoir-esque to the academic and analytical. As a result, this festshcrift is not only a book to honor an extraordinary edi-tor, but is in it’s own right a major contribution to the assessment of the importance of Kierkegaard.

Written with the general reader in mind, this collection will prove useful by both scholar and student, and will lead the general reader to encounter one of the most original Christian philosophers in the his-tory of the world.

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Kierkegaard wrote four reflec-tions on his literary production: On My Work as an Author, The Point of View for My Work as an Author, “The Single Individual,” and Armed Neutrality, but he published only the first. The essays in this volume of International Kierkegaard Commentary examine these writings not just as a public “report to history” but also as a revelation of Kierkegaard’s deepest understanding of himself as an author.

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The Point of view volume 22

Robert L. Perkins, series editor

For the first time in English the

world community of scholars has sys-

tematically assembled and presented

the results of recent research in the

vast literature of Søren Kierkegaard.

Based on the definitive English edition

of Kierkegaard’s works by Princeton

University Press, this series of com-

mentaries addresses all the published

texts of the influential Danish philoso-

pher and theologian.

Robert L. Perkins is senior research

professor of Philosphy at Stetson

University.NoVEMBER 2010 | PHILoSoPHY

6 x 9 | 256 pp. | Cloth, $50.00s 978-0-88146-213-5 | H812 Index | Bibliography

Scott Bryant attended Boston

University and Baylor University. He

received his Ph.D. in Church History

working under William H. Brackney.

An ordained Baptist minister, Scott

has served churches in Texas and in

Massachusetts. Scott enjoys teaching

and learning from students at Baylor

University. He and his wife, Natalie,

and their children Anna, Luke, and

Reid live in Waco, Texas.

in the last decades of the eighteenth century, Benjamin Ran-dall (1749–1808) was one of the principle founders of the Freewill Baptist movement in colonial New England. Randall was one of the many eighteenth-century colonists that enjoyed a conversion experience as a result of the revival ministry of George Whitefield. His newfound spiritual zeal prompted him to ex-amine the scriptures on his own, and he began to question the practice of infant baptism. Randall completed his separation from the Congrega-tional church of his youth when he contacted a Baptist congregation and submitted himself for baptism. When Randall was introduced to the Bap-tists in New England, he was made aware that his theology, including God’s universal love and universal grace, was at odds with Calvin’s

doctrine of election that was affirmed by the other Baptists.

Randall began to preach revival services throughout the region and he established a new congregation in New Durham, New Hampshire, in 1780. The congregation in New Durham served as his base of op-eration as he led revival services throughout New Hampshire and Southern maine. Randall’s travels introduced him to many colonists who accepted his message of uni-versal love and universal grace and a movement was born as he formed many congregations throughout the region. Randall spent the remainder of his life organizing, guiding, and leading the Freewill Baptists as they developed into a religious tradition that included thousands of adherents spread throughout New England and into Canada.

The awakening of the Freewill Baptists Benjamin Randall and the Founding of an American Religious Tradition

Scott Bryant


Loving Beyond Your Theology

The Life and Ministry of Jimmy

Raymond AllenLarry L. McSwainCloth | $35.00t | H805

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W. H. WhitsittThe Man and the

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Thy Will Be DoneA Biography of George W. TruettKeith E. DursoCloth | $35.00t | H792 978-0-88146-157-2

The first major work on Benjamin Randall

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The Life and Letters of emily chubbuck Judson

George Tooze, editor

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George Tooze was born in Boston

and educated at Gordon College (BS),

Gordon Conwell Theological Semi-

nary (M.Div.), and Andover Newton

Theological School (D.Min.). In forty

years of pastoral ministry, he served

churches in Gardner, Beverly, and Mal-

den, Massachusetts, and Indianapolis,

Indiana, retiring in December 2003. He

is president of the board of managers

of the Ministers and Missionaries Ben-

efit Board. He is married to Constance

Taylor Tooze.

Emily Chubbuck Judson (1817–

1854) is a well-known name, but for

more reasons than most know. She

was a nationally known writer (her

pseudonym was Fanny Forrester) with

pieces appearing alongside those by

Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman,

and she walked in literary company

second to none. She wrote childrens

books, essays, and stories.

Then, in 1845, she met Adoniram

Judson and they married in 1846.

Their work in Burma made them

famous as Baptist missionaries. After

his death in 1850, she returned to

the States in 1851 and spent the last

years of her life writing and publishing

her essays and poetry, and helping to

produce a biography of her husband.

During her fascinating life, she was a

prolific letter writer.

As these six volumes are presented,

readers and scholars in the future will

find in this material encouragement for

sharing more about the Judson lives,

and the wonderful work they accom-

plished. Their humanity, their faith,

and their deep commitment to their

call should prove to be instructive and

inspirational to each of our lives.

Volume 1 Biographies and Timelines

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Volume 2 1826–1845Cloth | $60.00t | H783 | 978-0-88146-149-7

Volume 3 1846–1847

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THE JAMES N. GRIFFITH ENDoWED SERIES IN BAPTIST STuDIES

The complete correspondence of a nineteenth-century woman, missionary, and writer

22 mERCER uNIvERSIT y PRESS The James N. Gr if f ith Ser ies in Bapti st Studies

The James n. griffith series in Baptist studiesthis series on baptist life and thought explores and investigates Baptist history, offers analyses of Baptist theologies, provides studies in hymnody, and examines the role of Baptists in societies and cultures around the world. The series also includes classics of Baptist literature, letters, diaries, and other writings. Walter B. Shurden, series editor

A Pilgrimage of Faith: My StoryHenlee Hulix Barnette H679 | 978-0-86554-942-5 | $35s

A Genetic History of Baptist Thought William H. Brackney P269 | 978-0-86554-913-5 | $40s

Adiel Sherwood: Baptist Antebellum Pioneer in GeorgiaJarrett Burch H595 | 978-0-86554-788-9 | $50s P258 | 978-0-86554-890-9 | $22s

The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution,and the BibleJames Byrd H582 | 978-0-86554-771-1 | $40s

A Piety Above the Common Standard:Jesse Mercer and the Defense of Evangelistic CalvinismAnthony Chute P325 | 978-0-86554-984-5 | $25t

Women Deacons and Deaconesses:400 Years of Baptist ServiceCharles W. Deweese P321 | 978-0-86554-438-3 | $21t

Courage and Hope: The Stories of Ten Baptist Women MinistersPamela R. Durso and Keith E. Durso P320 | 978-0-86554-420-8 | $18t

No Armor for the Back: Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s–1700sKeith E. Durso H747 | 978-0-88146-091-9 | $39t P374 | 978-0-88146-096-4 | $23t

A Man of Books and a Man of the People: E.Y. Mullins and the Crisis of Moderate Southern Baptist LeadershipWilliam E. Ellis P385 | 978-0-86554-907-4 | $30s

Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural InstitutionFrancis Wayland and Richard FullerNathan A. Finn and Keith Harper, editors

H755 | 978-0-88146-107-7 | $45s

The Bloudy Tenant of Persecution forCause of Conscience Roger Williams; Richard Grove, editor

Historical Introduction by Edwin Gaustad H578 | 978-0-86554-766-7 | $40t

Richard Furman: Life and LegacyJames A. Rogers P223 | 978-0-86554-778-0 | $25t

Send the Light: Lottie Moon’s Letters and other WritingsKeith Harper, editor H556 | 978-0-86554-744-5 | $55s P229 | 978-0-86554-820-6 | $25t

Rescue the Perishing: Selected Correspondence of Annie W. ArmstrongKeith Harper, editor H603 | 978-0-86554-843-5 | $55s P279 | 978-0-86554-870-1 | $25t

Esteemed Reproach: The Lives of Reverend James Ireland and Reverend Joseph CraigKeith Harper and C. Martin Jacumin P270 | 978-0-86554-914-2 | $25s

Distinctively Baptist: Essays on Baptist History: A Festschrift in Honor of Walter B. ShurdenMarc A. Jolley and John D. Pierce H640 | 978-0-86554-770-4 | $45s

The Baptist River: Essays on Many Tributaries of a Diverse TraditionW. Glenn Jonas P353 | 978-0-88146-120-6 | $24s

Twentieth–Century Shapers of Baptist Social EthicsLarry L. McSwain and W. Loyd Allen, editors H753 | 978-0-88146-100-8 | $45s

Not an Easy Journey: Some Transitionsin Baptist LifeWalter B. Shurden P289 | 978-0-86554-933-3 | $35t

Church-State Matters: Fighting for Religious Liberty in our Nation’s CapitalJ. Brent Walker H762 | 978-0-88146-115-2 | $28t

A Short Declaration of the Mysteryof Iniquity, 1611–1612Thomas Helwys†, Richard Groves, editor H429 | 978-0-86554-574-8 | $35t

W. H. Whitsitt: The Man and the ControversyJames H. Slatton H774 | 978-0-88146-133-6 | $40t

I Will Sing the Wondrous Story: A History of Baptist Hymnody in North AmericaPaul Richardson and David Music H682 | 978-0-86554-948-7 | $45t

Why Be A Christian: The Sermons of Howard P. GiddensMichael L. Ruffin H738 | 978-0-88146-081-0 | $30s

Turning Points in Baptist History: A Festschrift in Honor of Harry Leon McBethWalter B. Shurden and Michael Williams, editors H776 | 978-0-88146-135-0 | $45t In Search of the New Testament Church: The Baptist Story C. Douglas Weaver H653 | 978-0-88146-106-0 | $45s P346 | 978-0-88146-105-3 | $23s

Baptists on the American Frontier: A History of Ten Baptist Churches John Taylor; Chester Young, editor H373 | 978-0-86554-479-6 | $45t

Baptist Theology: A Four-Century StudyJames Leo Garrett H767 | 978-0-88146-129-9 | $55t

The Life and Writings of Thomas HelwysJoe Early, Jr. H781 | 978-0-88146-146-6 | $45t

The Scholarly Vocation and the Baptist Academy: Essays on the Future of Baptist Higher EducationRoger Ward and David P. Gushee, editors P376 | 978-0-88146-104-6 | $30s

Congregation and Campus: North American Baptists in Higher EducationWilliam H. Brackney H771 | 978-0-88146-130-5 | $49t

Theology in the Service of the Church: Essays Presented to Fisher H. HumphreysTimothy George and Eric F. Mason, editors H761 | 978-0-88146-114-5 | $35s

The Axioms of ReligionE. Y. Mullins†, C. Douglas Weaver, editor P392 | 978-0-88146-164-0 | $32t

Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands university Library of Manchester,1781–1845Timothy Whelan, editor H780 | 978-0-88146-144-2 | $55t

Thy Will Be Done: A Biography of George W. TruettKeith E. Durso H792 | 978-0-88146-157-2 | $35t

Loving Beyond Your Theology: The Life and Ministry of Jimmy Raymond AllenLarry L. McSwain H805 | 978-0-88146-205-0 | $35t

The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists: Benjamin Randall and the Founding of an American Religious TraditionScott Bryant H815 | 978-0-88146-216-6 | $35t

Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton: Eighteenth-Century, British-Baptist, Woman TheologianJoAnn Ford Watson, editorVol. 1: Letters H601 | 978-0086554-794-0 | $50s

Vol. 2: Discourses H602 | 978-0-86554-795-7 | $50s

Vol. 3: Autobiography H670 | 978-0-86554-908-1 | $35s

Vol. 4: Theological Works H722 | 978-0-88146-029-2 | $50s

Vol. 5: Misc. Correspondence H729 | 978-0-88146-053-7 | $50s

Vol. 6: Various Works H789 | 978-0-88146-154-1 | $50s

The Life and Letters of Emily Chubbuck JudsonGeorge Tooze, editorVol. 1: Biographies/Timelines H772 | 978-0-88146-131-2 | $60t

Vol. 2: 1826–1845 H783 | 978-0-88146-149-7 | $60t

Vol. 3: 1846–1847 H791 | 978-0-88146-156-5 | $60t

Vol. 4: 1848–September 1851 H803 | 978-0-88146-189-3 | $60t

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Liberty, State, and union: The Political Theory ofThomas JeffersonLuigi Marco BassaniH802 | $35.00t | 9780881461862

Educating the urban New South: Atlanta and the Rise of GeorgiaState university, 1913-1969Merl E. ReedH784 | $35.00t | 9780881461480

Footnotes to History:A Primer on the AmericanPolitical CharacterGriffin B. Bell†, John P Cole, editorH668 | $25.00t | 9780865549043

The History of the Mercer university School of Medicine, 1965–2007Martin L. Dalton, Jr., M.D., FACSH796 | $45.00s | 9780881461619

Presidential Praise:our Presidents And Their HymnsC. Edward Spann and Michael E. Williams, Sr.H763 | $35.00t | 9780881461176

The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and EssaysChristopher C. MeyersH758 | $50.00s | 9780881461107P377 | $28.00t | 9780881461114

Home of the Infantry: The History of Fort BenningPeggy A Stelpflug and Richard HyattH741 | $35.00t | 9780881460872

Sacred Places:A Guide to the Civil RightsSites in Atlanta, GeorgiaHarry G. Lefever and Michael C. PageP379 | $18.00t | 9780881461213

The Governors of Georgia: Third Edition 1754-2004James F. CookP305 | $22.00t | 9780865549548

The Bully Pulpit and the Melting Pot: American Presidents and the Immigrant, 1897–1933Hans P. VoughtH659 | $45.00t | 9780865548879

Macon Black And White: An unutterable Separation In The American CenturyAndrew M. ManisP306 | $20.00t | 9780865549586

Taking up Serpents:Snake Handlers of Eastern KentuckyDavid L. KimbroughP226 | $19.00s | 9780865547988

Jimmy Carter, Public opinion, and the Search for Values, 1977-1981Gregory Paul DominH636 | $35.00t | 9780865548459

Black Lebeda: The Russian Famine Diary of Ara Kazan District Supervisor J. RivesChilds, 1921-1923Jamie H. CockfieldH701 | $40.00s | 9780881460155

Lincoln Reshapes the PresidencyCharles M. Hubbard, editorH619 | $35.00t | 9780865548176

This Georgia Rising:Education, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940sPatrick NovotnyH744 | $45.00t | 9780881460889 H

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“Going Back the Way They Came”: The Phillips Georgia

Legion Cavalry BattalionRichard M. Coffman

H800 | $35.00t | 9780881461879

The Volunteer’s Camp and Field Book John Penn Curry†

Edited and Compiled by William B. Sargeant and John W. Brinsfield

P397 | $20.00t | 9780881461695

The Confederate Soldier’s Pocket Manual of Devotions

Charles Todd Quintard†, Foreword by CH (COL) William O. Nisbet, Jr.

P402 | $18.00t | 9780881461756

Invisible Hero: Patrick R. Cleburne

Bruce H. Stewart, Jr.H756 | $35.00t | 9780881461084

In the Shadow of the Patriarch: The John J. Crittenden

Family in War and PeaceDamon R. Eubank

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A Confederate Legend:Berry Benson in War and Peace

Edward J. Cashin†

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Ghosts And Shadowsof Andersonville:

Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America’s Deadliest Prison

Robert S. DavisH703 | $35.00t | 9780881460124

A Fit Representation of Pandemonium: East Tennessee

Confederate Soldiers in theCampaign for Vicksburg

William D. Taylor†

H712 | $40.00t | 9780881460346

Saddle Bag and Spinning Wheel: Being the Civil War Letters of George

W. Peddy, M.D., Surgeon, 56th Georgia Volunteer Regiment, CSA

George P. Cuttino†

H765 | $35.00t | 9780881461190

To Honor These Men:A History of the Phillips Georgia

Legion Infantry BattalionRichard M. Coffman and Kurt D. Graham

H733 | $40.00t | 9780881460605

The Spirit Divided:Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains:

The ConfederacyJohn Wesley Brinsfield, Jr., editor

H687 | $35.00t | 9780865549647

The Spirit Divided:Memoirs of Civil War Chaplains:

The unionBenedict R. Maryniak and John

Wesley Brinsfield, Jr., editorsH715 | $35.00t | 9780865549968

South Carolina’s Civil War:A Narrative History

W. Scott PooleH689 | $32.00t | 9780865549685

Mississippi’s Civil War: A Narrative History

Ben WynneH725 | $35.00t | 9780881460391

Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama: The Journal

of Augustus Benners, 1850–1885Glenn M. Linden and Virginia Linden

H731 | $35.00t | 9780881460568

Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients:

Atlanta to opelikaJack D. Welsh

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A Hard Trip:A History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry, CSABen WynneP406 | $25.00t | 9780881461794

The Battle of Resaca:Atlanta Campaign, 1864Philip L. Secrist†

P413 | $16.00t | 9780881462074

Civil War Macon: The History of aConfederate CityRichard William Iobst†

P400 | $35.00t | 9780881461725

GriswoldvilleWilliam Harris BraggP396 | $30.00t | 9780881461688

Joe Brown’s Pets: The Georgia Militia, 1862-1865William R. ScaifeWilliam Harris BraggH655 | $30.00t | 9780865548831

Joe Brown’s Army: The Georgia State Line 1862-1865William Harris BraggP119 | $25.00t | 9780865542624

Soldiers of the Cross:Confederate Soldier-Christians and the Impact of War on Their FaithKent T. DollarH662 | $35.00t | 9780865549265

A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on the Life and Career of Major Patrick R. CleburneMauriel Phillips JoslynH533 | $34.95t | 9780865546936

The Moving Appeal:Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War’s Great Newspaper RunBarbara G. EllisH576 | $45.00t | 9780865547643

Letters to Amanda:The Civil War Letters of Marion Hill Fitzpatrick, Army of Northern VirginiaJeffrey C. LoweH444 | $29.95t | 9780865545915P255 | $19.00t | 9780865548817

our Connection with Savannah:History of the 1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, 1862–1865Russell K. BrownH673 | $35.00t | 9780865549166

Cracker Cavaliers:The 2nd Georgia Cavalryunder Wheeler and ForrestJohn R. PooleH516 | $34.95t | 978086556974

My Dear Friend:The Civil War Letters of Alva Benjamin Spencer, 3rd Georgia Regiment, Company CClyde G. Wiggins, IIIH732 | $29.95t | 9780881460575

The Bishop of the old South: The Ministry And Civil War Legacyof Leonidas PolkGlenn RobinsH660 | $35.00t | 9780881460384

Furl That Banner: The Life of Abram J. Ryan, Poet-priest of the SouthDavid O’ConnellH707 | $35.00t | 9780881460353

Rice Gold:James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia CoastJames BagwellP225 | $25.00t | 9780865547971

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Religious Faith, Torture, and our National Soul David P. Gushee, editor

Jillian Hickman Zimmer and J. Drew Zimmer, coeditors

P411 | $28.00t | 9780881462036

Christianity: A Biblical, Historical, and

Theological Guide for StudentsKathryn Lopez, Donald Penny,

Glenn Jonas, and Adam EnglishP412 | $35.00t | 9780881462043

our Sufficiency Is of God: Essays on Preaching in Honor of

Gardner C. TaylorTimothy George, James Earl Massey

and Robert Smith, Jr.H806 | $35.00t | 9780881462067

William owen Carver’s Controversies in

the Baptist SouthMark R. Wilson

H804 | $45.00t | 9780881462029

Thy Will Be Done: A Biography of George W. Truett

Keith E. DursoH792 | $35.00t | 9780881461572

The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau

Malcolm Clemens YoungH793 | $35.00t | 9780881461589

Jesus Christ Today: The Historical Shaping of Jesus

for the Twenty-First Century Edgar V. McKnight

P395 | $32.00t | 9780881461671

The Axioms of ReligionE. Y. Mullins†

✝edited by C. Douglas WeaverP392 | $32.00t | 9780881461640

Irigaray and Kierkegaard: on the Construction of the Self

Helene Tallon RussellP394 | $35.00t | 9780881461664

Questioning Psychological Health and Well-Being: Historical

and Contemporary DialoguesBritt-Mari Sykes

P399 | $32.00t | 9780881461718

Reinhold Niebuhr and Psychology:

The Ambiguities of the SelfTerry D. Cooper

P388 | $27.00t | 9780881461473

Maynard Adams: Southern Philosopher of Civilization

Glenn BlackburnH597 | $45.00t | 9780865547902

The Life and Writings of Thomas Helwys

Joe Early, Jr.H781 | $45.00t | 9780881461466

Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands university Library of

Manchester, 1741-1845Timothy D. Whelan

H780 | $55.00t | 9780881461442

Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study

James Leo GarrettH767 | $55.00t | 9780881461299

W. H. Whitsitt: The Man and the Controversy

James H. SlattonH774 |$40.00t | 9780881461336

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Loving Beyond Your Theology: The Life and Ministry ofJimmy Raymond AllenLarry L. McSwainH805 | $35.00t | 9780881462050

Religious Internationalism:War and Peace in the Thought of Paul TillichMatthew Lon WeaverP408 | $35.00t | 9780881461886

By What Authority:The Vital Questions of Religious Authority in ChristianityRobert L. Millet, editorP410 | $35.00t | 978088142012

Sober Cannibals, Drunken Christians: Melville, Kierkegaard, and Tragic optimism in Polarized WorldsJamie LorentzenP409 | $35.00t | 978088146200

Acts within Diverse Frames of ReferenceThomas E. PhillipsP393 | $30.00t | 9780881461657

Contemporary Studies in ActsThomas E. PhillipsP386 | $35.00t | 9780881461459

Twentieth-Century Shapers of Baptist Social Ethicsedited by Larry L. McSwainW. Loyd Allen, Historical ConsultantH753 | $45.00s | 9780881461008

In Search of the New Testament Church: The Baptist StoryC. Douglas WeaverH653 | $45.00s | 9780881461060P346 | $23.00s | 9780881461053

I Will Sing the Wondrous Story: A History of Baptist Hymnody in North AmericaDavid W. Music and Paul RichardsonH682 | $45.00t | 9780865549487

Struggling with God: An Introduction to the PentateuchMark McEntireP336 | $25.00s | 9780881461015

Church-State Matters:Fighting for Religious Libertyin our Nation’s CapitalJ. Brent WalkerH762 | $28.00t | 9780881461152

The Scholarly Vocation and the Baptist Academy: Essays on the Future of Baptist Higher EducationRoger Ward and David P. GusheeP376 | $30.00t |9780881461046

No Armor for the Back:Baptist Prison Writings, 1600s-1700sKeith E. DursoH747 | $39.00t | 9780881460919P374 | $23.00t | 9780881460964

Pictures of Islam: A Student’s Guide to IslamDonald L. BerryP370 | $18.00t | 9780881460865

The Imitation of Christ:A New Reading of the 1441 Latin Autograph ManuscriptThomas A. Kempis†;Translation by William C. CreasyH749 | $25.00t | 9780881460971

Ante Pacem: Archaeological Evidence of Church Life Before ConstantineGraydon F. SnyderH661 | $35.00s | 9780865548954

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African Americans in Georgia: A Reflection of Politics

and Policy in the New SouthPearl K. Ford, editor

H799 | $40.00t | 9780881461848

“Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus”:

The original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871–1878

Toni P. AndersonH785 | $45.00t | 9780881461121

The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois: New Essays and Reflections

Edward J. Blum and Jason R. Young, editors

H777 | $45.00t | 9780881461367

The Cost of unity: African American Agency and Education and

the Christian Church, 1865-1914Lawrence A. Q. Burnley

H775 | $45.00t | 9780881461343

Making My Mark: The Story of a Man Who

Wouldn’t Stay in His PlaceMarvin S. Arrington, Sr.

H751 | $29.00t | 9780881460988

Pursuing a Promise: A History of African

Americans at Georgia Southern university

Eric F. BrooksH700 | $35.00t | 9780881460186

From the Plantation to the Prison:

African-American Confinement Literature

Tara T. GreenH746 | $35.00s | 9780881460902

undaunted By The Fight: Spelman College And The Civil Rights

Movement, 1957-1967Harry G. Lefever

H695 | $55.00s | 9780865549760P292 | $25.00t | 9780865549388

Re-Cognizing W. E. B. Du Bois in the Twenty-First Century: Essays

on W. E. B. Du Bois Edited by Mary Keller & Chester J. Fontenot, Jr.

H737 | $60.00s | 9780881460773P335 | $30.00t | 9780881460599

Erasing Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia

in the Americas Joseph A. Young and Jana Evans Braziel, editors

H736 | $60.00s | 9780881460766P327 | $30.00t | 9780881460582

The orangeburg MassacreJack Bass and Jack Nelson

P155 | $18.95t | 9780865545526

W.E.B. Du Bois and Race: Essays Celebrating the Centennial

Publication of the Souls of Black FolkEdited by Chester J. Fontenot, Jr.,

Mary Alice Morgan & Sarah GardnerH545 | $35.00s | 9780865547278

The Narrative Life: The Moral and Religious

Thought of Frederick DouglassScott C. Williamson

P236 | $25.00t | 9780865548343

Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest

for Social PowerJames M. Washington

P020 | $25.00t | 9780865541924

Black Baptists and African Missions: The origins of

a Movement 1880-1915Sandy D. Martin

P173 | $25.00t | 9780865546004

Benjamin Elijah Mays: A Pictorial Life And Times

Carrie M. DumasH704 | $45.00t | 9780881460162

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A Comfortable Boy:A MemoirSam PickeringH773 | $26.00t | 9780881461824

Thy Will Be Done:A Biography of George W. TruettKeith E. DursoH792 | $35.00t | 9780881461572

Relationship Banker:Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916-1959James L. HuntH672 | $35.00t | 9780865549159

Maynard Adams: Southern Philosopher of CivilizationGlenn BlackburnH597 | $45.00t | 9780865547902

W. H. Whitsitt: The Man and the ControversyJames H. SlattonH774 | $40.00t | 9780881461336

The Sicilian Judge: Anthony Alaimo, an American HeroVincent CoppolaH768 | $30.00t | 9780881461251

The Sunrise Remembers: Memories from the JourneyJackie K. CooperP381 | $20.00t | 9780881461244

Elie Wiesel: A Religious BiographyFrederick L. DowningH752 | $29.99t | 9780881460995

Making My Mark: The Story of a Man WhoWouldn’t Stay in His PlaceMarvin S. Arrington, Sr.H751 | $29.00t | 9780881460988

When All God’s Children Get Together: A Memoir of Race and BaptistsEmmanuel McCallP365 | $18.00t | 9780881460650

A Pilgrimage of Faith: My StoryHenlee Hulix BarnetteH679 | $35.00s | 9780865549425

No Saints, No Saviors: My Years With The Allman Brothers BandWilliam H. PerkinsH688 | $25.00t | 9780865549678

Walking Integrity: Benjamin Elijah Mays, Mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr. Lawrence Edward Carter, editorP174 | $30.00s | 9780865546042

Carl Vinson: Patriarch of the Armed ForcesJames F. CookH566 | $35.00t | 9780865547544

Amazing Grace in John Newton: Slave Ship Captain, Hymn Writer,and AbolitionistWilliam E. PhippsH536 | $35.00t | 9780865547162

Closing Arguments:A MemoirBuckner F. Melton, Sr.H667 | $25.00t | 9780865549272

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Shakespeare’s Philosopher King:Reading The Tragedy of King Lear

Guy Story BrownH801 | $45.00t | 9780881461855

Georgia Cowboy PoetsDavid Fillingim, editor

P407 | $25.00t | 9780881461831

Breakwater:Poems

Catharine Savage BrosmanH797 | $30.00t | 9780881461800P391 | $18.00t | 9780881461633

Elegies for the Water:Poems

Philip Lee WilliamsH757 | $20.00t | 9780881461428

The Campfire Boys:A Novel

Philip Lee WilliamsH788 | $26.00t | 9780881461534

Masters and Savages:A Novel

James DawseyH787 | $26.00t | 9780881461411

under the Rock umbrella: Contemporary American

Poets from 1951-1977William Walsh, editor

P341 | $35.00t | 9780881460476

The Flagrant Dead:Poems

Stephen BluestoneH714 | $28.00s | 9780881460506P338 | $16.00t | 9780881460759

The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Harry Potter

John KillingerP390 | $17.00t | 9780881461626

Inside the Church of Flannery o’Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental,

and the Sacred in Her FictionJoanne Halleran McMullen

and Jon Parrish PeedeP380 | $22.95t | 9780881461381

The Incarnational Art ofFlannery o’ConnorChristina Bieber Lake

H680 | $35.00t | 9780865549432

Latitude of Home: A Storytelling Journey

Sally RussellH750 | $27.00t | 9780881460780

The Convention:A Parable

Will D. CampbellP368 | $20.00t | 9780881460841

Down Town:A Novel

Ferrol SamsH734 | $25.00t | 9780881460728

The Book of Marie:A Novel

Terry KayH742 | $23.00t | 9780881460827

Whiskey Before Breakfast:A Novel

Benjy GriffithH766 | $24.95t | 9780881461237

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