
Can I Get a Witness?
Essays, Sermons, and Reflections
Bill J. Leonard(Author)
Mercer University Press
Published on 30. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-0-88146-468-9 (ISBN)
Description
As the twenty-first century muddles along, perhaps the phrase Can I get a witness? will sharpen our thinking about the current state of religion in American culture, particularly for Protestants. Indeed, the permanent transition that characterizes American religious life offers an opportunity to revisit the word witness and its meaning for the future. The materials in this volume survey issues in American religious communities developed through academic research, classroom teaching, sermons, and years of working with ministerial students. Each essay reflects responses to a time in which old systems of organization and identity are changing, reforming, declining, and disappearing from the ecclesiastical landscape. Thus methods for offering Christian witness are undergoing significant reexamination by denominations, congregations and individuals.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88146-468-9 (9780881464689)
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Bill J. Leonard is James and Marilyn Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and Church History at the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University. Widely recognized for his work in American, Southern, and Baptist religious studies, he is author or editor of some twenty-one books including Baptist Ways: A History and Baptists In America. Leonard holds a PhD from Boston University.