In a revision of her dissertation at Baylor University, Chan introduces the 19th-century political context in China, and surveys early Chinese Bible versions and the legacy of Baptist missions and Bib
Williams presents students, academics, and general-interest readers with a collection of essays and documents that shed insight on the history, people, and politics of the old South by focusing on les
Born in 1739 and raised by the “King’s Botanist for the North American continent,” William Bartram was encouraged from an early age by his parents to collect, record, and draw flowers, bones, plants,
The publication of the Encyclopedia of Religion in the South in 1984 signaled the rise in the scholarly interest in the study of religion in the South. Religion has always been part of the cultural he
Politics and Faith interprets the partnership of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich by exploring their relationship and mutual influence. Ronald H. Stone draws upon a survey of their students, their pu
Stormy Weather & Other Stories is probably as close as Lisa Alther will ever come to writing an autobiography. These stories, written over the course of her career, are set in the three places tha
The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board (MMBB) was authorized in 1911 by the Northern Baptist Convention and chartered in New York State in 1913 "to promote interest in the better maintenance of
Begin with Rock, End with Water is John Lane's third collection of essays. In this new gathering of seventeen narrative essays Lane pushes even deeper into a twenty-year lyrical consideration of his p
Mirror's Fathom is the story of Tycho Wilhelm Lund anarchist, pirate, and thief of a legendary mirror. Tycho is also a great-nephew of the Danish philosopher S ren Kierkegaard and is, when the novel b
