Mobilizing for the Common Good: The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins

by Peter Goodwin Heltzel and Peter Slade

Book Overview

Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation and social justice to America's white evangelical churches. Often an unwelcome voice and always a passionate, provocative clarion, Perkins persisted for forty years in bringing about the formation of the Christian Community Development Association--a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617038598
• ISBN13: 9781617038594
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"