Description: If prophets are called to unveil and expose the
illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as ""the right""
and purportedly using their powers for ""the good,"" then Will D.
Campbell is one of the foremost prophets in American religious
history. Like Clarence Jordan and Dorothy Day, Campbell incarnates
the radical iconoclastic vocation of standing in contraposition to
society, naming and smashing the racial, economic, and political
idols that seduce and delude. Despite an action-packed life,
Campbell is no activist seeking to control events and guarantee
history's right outcomes. Rather, Campbell has committed his life
to the proposition that Christ has already set things right.
Irrespective of who one is, or what one has done, each human being
is reconciled to God and one another, now and forever. History's
most scandalous message is, therefore, ""Be reconciled "" because
once that imperative is taken seriously, social constructs like
race, ethnicity, gender, and nationality are at best irrelevant and
at worst idolatrous. Proclaiming that far too many disciples miss
the genius of Christianity's good news (the kerygma) of
reconciliation, this Ivy League-educated preacher boldly and
joyfully affirms society's so-called least one, cultivating
community with everyone from civil rights leaders and Ku Klux Klan
militants, to the American literati and exiled convicts. Except for
maybe the self-righteous, none is excluded from the beloved
community. For the first time in nearly fifty years, Campbell's
provocative Race and Renewal of the Church is here made available.
Gayraud Wilmore called Campbell's foundational work ""an unsettling
reading experience,"" but one that articulates an unwavering
""confidence in the victory which God can bring out of the weakness
of the church."" Endorsements: ""Richard Goode is at it again, much
like Will Campbell before him. Both of these southern Christian
iconoclasts have helped me to appreciate what Goode calls 'the
genius of Radical Christianity.' I recommend this book as an
inspiring introduction to Campbell's life, prophetic witness, and
to all for which he stood. May it embolden others to stand against
'the principalities and powers of the world.'"" --Douglas A.
Sweeney author of The American Evangelical Story ""Here is a book
whose radical fidelity to the kingdom of God will shake you to the
core. Drawing on the life and teachings of Will Campbell, Goode
explains, for example, why Jesus 'was a traitor' whose 'Way is to
commit treason, ' and why there is finally no hope for
principalities and powers like the PTA, the Pentagon, Communism,
the Methodist Church, or the United States of America. If this book
doesn't turn your world upside-down, then either you missed the
point or you're not serious about following Jesus."" --Richard T.
Hughes author of Christian America and the Kingdom of God About the
Contributor(s): Will D. Campbell was a Baptist preacher in Taylor,
Louisiana, for two years before taking the position of Director of
Religious Life at the University of Mississippi from 1954 to 1956.
Forced to leave the university because of his ardent Civil Rights
participation, Campbell served on the National Council of Churches
in New York as a race relations consultant. Campbell worked closely
with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and Andrew Young
toward bettering race relations. Campbell's Brother to a Dragonfly
earned him the Lillian Smith Prize, the Christopher Award, and a
National Book Award nomination. The Glad River won a first-place
award from the Friends of American Writers in 1982. His works have
also won a Lyndhurst Prize and an Alex Haley Award. Richard C.
Goode is Professor of History at Lipscomb University in Nashville,
and coordinates the Lipscomb University program at the Tennessee
Prison for Women.
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