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A portrait of the German pastor-theologian draws on new research to cover the 1930 visit to America that shaped his perspectives on faith and moral responsibility, his achievements as an anti-Nazi activist, and the plot against Hitler that would result in his execution.
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"For years, Charles Marsh suffered panic attacks and debilitating anxiety. As an Evangelical Christian, he was taught to trust in the power of God and His will. While his Christian community resisted therapy and personal introspection, Marsh eventually knew he needed help. To alleviate his suffering, he made the bold decision to seek medical treatment and underwent years of psychoanalysis. In this spiritual memoir, Marsh tells the story of his struggle...
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U.Va. Regligious Studies professor Marsh argues that the Civil Rights movement was, at its core, a Christian attempt to forge a "beloved community" of believers who identify with the poor and dispossessed and seek justice on their behalf. As his alternative telling unfolds, he introduces readers to a Martin Luther King Jr. they may not recognize (one who looked forward to a life of privilege and comfort until he was forced into leadership of the Montgomery...
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"Winner of the 1998 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary" "Co-Winner of the 1998 Towson University Prize for Literature" Charles Marsh is professor of religious studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he is the author of Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Last Days and, most recently,...
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Charles Marsh responds to criticisms of his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by exploring the largely unexamined relationship between theology and biography. In Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand, he argues that Bonhoeffer scholarship desperately needs the revitalizing energies of the theologian's life story revisited and uncensored by the guild.
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Basic Books
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[2001]
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English
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While many authors have recorded the legal struggles and victories of the American Civil Rights movement through 1967, fewer have talked about the fallout from these victories, how individual men, women and young adults struggled with the actual processes of integration on the personal level: in the homes, the schools, the churches, where people came face-to-face with racial hatred - with those who practiced it, and those who suffered from it. Seeking...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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In Wayward Christian Soldiers, evangelical theologian Charles Marsh offers an indictment of the political activism of evangelical Christian leaders and churches in the United States. With emphasis on repentance and renewal, this book advises Christians how to understand past mistakes and to avoid making them in the future. The author offers a sobering contrast between the contemporary evangelical elite, which forms the core of the Republican Party,...