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Clarence Jordan: A Radical Pilgrimage in Scorn of the Consequences

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Using a corpus of family letters, his FBI file, and a series of interviews, Frederick L. Downing portrays Clarence Jordan as a pioneer (on the frontier of the New South), a prophet, and a moral exemplar. As a New Testament Greek scholar and founder of Koinonia Farm, there were two distinctive poles to the prophetic nature of Jordans life and work: one which sought to critique and dismantle the status quo, and the other which attempted to evoke a new way of being. Jordans critique of church and society was profound and increasingly radical. In this biography Downing shows that Jordan was, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas K. Gandhi, a homo religious-a religious innovator of the highest order who had universalizing vision. As a religious genius, Jordan was a cultural worker whose own search for faithfulness and human wholeness was interwoven with the quest to redeem his region. In life, Jordan attempted to be in dialogue with his culture, where he sought the liberation of the oppressed and the oppressor; and called for a new view of humanity and an alternative portrayal of God and the Bible. In death, his legacy is that of a dangerous memory subversive to the human tendency toward greed and the reckless disregard of the poor, and provides a strong iconoclastic dimension to collective memory. The impact of Clarence Jordan on his culture was so strong that forty-five years after his death his legend as a modern saint lingers in American society still seeking to demythologize the shared values and consensus, and continues to call for alternative ways of being in a world where racism, militarism, and materialism continue to exist.

About the Author

Frederick L. Downing is professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and department head at Valdosta State University. His previous books, To See the Promised Land: The Faith Pilgrimage of Martin Luther King, Jr., received national attention and Elie


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780881466324
  • Publisher: Mercer University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Mercer University Press
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 658 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0881466328
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Radical Pilgrimage in Scorn of the Consequences
  • Width: 155 mm


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