Who Lynched Willie Earle? (eBook)

Preaching to Confront Racism

William H. Willimon (Autor)

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2017 | Who Lynched Willie Earle? - eBook [ePub]
152 Seiten
Abingdon Press (Verlag)
978-1-5018-3252-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Pastors and leaders long to speak an effective biblical word into the contemporary social crisis of racial violence and black pain. They need a no-nonsense strategy rooted in actual ecclesial life, illuminated in this fine book by a trustworthy guide, Will Willimon, who uses the true story of pastor Hawley Lynn’s March of 1947 sermon, “Who Lynched Willie Earle?” as an opportunity to respond to the last lynching in Greenville, South Carolina and its implications for a more faithful proclamation of the Gospel today.

By hearing black pain, naming white complicity, critiquing American exceptionalism/civil religion, inviting/challenging the church to respond, and attending to the voices of African American pastors and leaders, this book helps pastors of white, mainline Protestant churches preach effectively in situations of racial violence and dis-ease.

Autor

Will Willimon is a lifelong Methodist. He is Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at Duke University Divinity School and retired Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church, after serving for twenty years as faculty member and Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. As Bishop, he led North Alabama's 157,000 Methodists and 792 pastors. He has authored roughly a hundred books and is widely recognized as one of Methodism's most insightful, inspiring, and challenging voices.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Schlagworte: biblical guidelines • Christianity • Christian ministry • Christian roots • Civil Rights • Forgiveness • Good and evil • History • Holy Spirit • life lessons • Pastors • Prayer • preachers • Preaching • Pulpit • racial acceptance • Racism • self fulfillment • Spiritual • spiritual growth • theological insight
• ISBN-10: 1-5018-3252-2 / 1501832522
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5018-3252-9 / 9781501832529