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Voices in the wilderness : twentieth-century prophets speak to the new millennium / G. McLeod Bryan.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c1999.Description: xvi, 117 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0865546398 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.8/2/0922 B 21
LOC classification:
  • BR 1700.2 .B79 1999
Summary: Summary:Summary: "In this book, G. McLeod Bryan gives firsthand accounts of his interactions with five of the most important prophetic voices of the twentieth century: Martin Luther King Jr., anti-apartheid minister C.F. Beyers Naude, Clarence Jordan - New Testament scholar and founder of the interracial farm community known as Koinonia Farm - Czech pastor Jaroslav Stolar, and religion scholar Huston Smith. In a century filled with violence, war, and oppression, these five figures appealed to the freedom of conscience in order to reach beyond the limitations of institutional Christianity to reclaim a more authentic following of Christ."--Jacket.
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"In this book, G. McLeod Bryan gives firsthand accounts of his interactions with five of the most important prophetic voices of the twentieth century: Martin Luther King Jr., anti-apartheid minister C.F. Beyers Naude, Clarence Jordan - New Testament scholar and founder of the interracial farm community known as Koinonia Farm - Czech pastor Jaroslav Stolar, and religion scholar Huston Smith. In a century filled with violence, war, and oppression, these five figures appealed to the freedom of conscience in order to reach beyond the limitations of institutional Christianity to reclaim a more authentic following of Christ."--Jacket.