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The Seventh Mirror ................................1terry Kay

Mother of Rain .......................................2Karen spears Zacharias

In Pursuit .................................................3sharman burson Ramsey

The Pope’s Guest ......................................4Vladimir Volkoff†; John M. Dunaway

Remembering ferrol sams .....................5

Concertina ..............................................6Joseph bathanti

Decembers ....................................................... 7James a. Perkins

I Have Told You and Told You ...............8elizabeth cox

Memory’s Mist ........................................9Jackie K. cooper

The Slendour Falls .................................10sam Pickering

Remembering Will D. campbell ...........11

The Second Bud ....................................12Martha M. ezzard

A Southern Woman’s Guide to Herbs ...13Jaclyn Weldon White

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek ...........14Robert D. Jenkins, sr.

Georgia’s Confederate Monuments ....15Gould b. Hagler, Jr., editor

Thomas Grantham ...............................16John Inscore essick

series Page ............................................17

Can I Get a Witness? ............................18bill J. leonard

Repetition and the Fullness of Time ...19Randall G. colton

Inconclusive Theologies .........................20lisa D. Powell

On the front cover: Spire on the Godsey Administration Building,Mercer University, Macon, Georgia

From the Director

Dear Reader,

One of the great joys in publishing is in getting to know authors and colleagues. Publishers, writers, vendors, and booksellers grow like families. But with family comes joy and sorrow. This past year, both Ferrol Sams and Will D. Campbell died. We will miss them greatly. They each left a unique legacy. (See tributes to these two authors later in this catalog.)

Closer to home, however, on 19 May 2013 Edmon Lewin Rowell, Jr. (1937–2013) passed. Edd was an editor at Mercer University Press for thirty years and one month. He was a veteran of the Korean War. His training was in theology, but his passion was publishing. He loved editing. He would complain about every misused comma and every misquoted text he ever came across, he talked about every troubled author and every grateful author, and he loved every moment. There are so many authors who thanked him profusely for pointing out the misquotes, the comma splices, the wrong sources, and all the other mistakes they had made. Each book he edited was like a flower or a vegetable. He would take the author and the manuscript from the roughest of forms and, using a Carmine Red Pencil like a spade or a hoe, he would shape it and tend to it and care for it and love it until it was an exemplary book. His work did not go unrecognized. In 1999, he received the Georgia Author of the Year Award for lifetime achievement as an editor.

Mercer University Press is what it is today in large part due to the work and commitment of Edd Rowell. We miss Edd. He was a mentor to everyone who worked with him. His editorial excellence and his moral compass were models to emulate. He was a dear friend and a great man. May his memory be a blessing.

Marc A. Jolley

Like his father and grandfather before him, Fergus Greybar the Fourth travels the countryside in a wagon of carnival mirrors, pulled by two magnificent white horses named Look and See. As the Mirror Man, he is welcomed everywhere by children who find delight in seeing themselves take on strange and funny shapes when looking into the six mirrors that line the inside of his wagon. But there is another mirror, one of great magic—the Seventh Mirror. In it, children see themselves not as they are, but as they wish to be. It is the magic of the Seventh Mirror that the Mirror Man uses to return a young runaway girl named Sarah to her village of Whistletown. There, a frantic and comic search for her is taking place, involving everyone from the mayor and the police chief and the town poet to a cunning seasick pirate named Jake the Hunter and his fierce-looking dog Sniffer. They all play a major role in Sarah’s revealing discovery of the meaning of home. But Sarah is not the only person to find herself in the hidden magic of the Seventh Mirror. So does the Mirror Man.

A member of the Georgia Writers Hall of

Fame and a four-time Author of the Year

from the Georgia Writers Association,

Terry Kay is the author of fourteen

published works of fiction, including

the internationally popular To Dance

with the White Dog. Three novels are

Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.

The Seventh Mirror

Terry Kay

For readers age 10–15 and beyond

Also available as an e-book

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The Greats of Cuttercane

Terry KayCloth | $22.00t | H827

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Bogmeadow’s WishTerry KayCloth | $26.00t | H821978-0-88146-230-2e-book | $19.00t | H821e978-0-88146-247-0

The Book of Marie

Terry KayCloth | $23.00t | H742

978-0-88146-082-7

A Death at the White Camellia OrphanageMarly YoumansCloth | $24.00t | H837978-0-88146-271-5Paper | $18.00t | P467978-0-88146-446-9e-book | $24.00t | H837e978-0-88146-364-4

Finding your true self in the magic of the Seventh Mirror

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Karen Spears Zacharias is a daughter

of Appalachia, a descendant of founding

families of Hawkins County, Tennessee.

She learned the craft of storytelling

from her aunt Cil Christian of Christian

Bend, Tennessee. She is the author of

A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir

of Murder. Zacharias has written for

Huffington Post, New York Times, CNN,

and National Public Radio. She teaches

at Central Washington University in

Ellensburg, Washington, and blogs at

Patheos.com.

“Maizee Hurd was an easy target for hard times,” according to Burdy Luttrell, the town healer. Burdy is a Melungeon woman with striking features and mysterious ways. She owns the land the Hurds leased following their marriage on June 3, 1940.

Maizee moved upriver at the age of ten after tragedy struck, and she was sent off to be raised by a childless aunt and her doctor husband. Shortly after Maizee’s ferry boat arrival in the rural mountain community of Christian Bend—carrying only a small suitcase, her mama’s Bible, and her doll Hitty—the young girl began hearing the voices that would continue to torment her.

It was the tender love of her husband Zeb and their shared passion for the Appalachian hills and rivers of east tennessee that helped quiet the voices. But, as World War II tears through europe, and Zeb prepares for deployment, Maizee’s life is rocked by the ripples of war. Despite the love that carried her through the birth of their son, rain, and the boy’s subsequent illness that rendered him deaf, Maizee can’t silence the demons in her own head. The voices have returned with a vengeance and a plan.

Karen Spears Zacharias captures the humor, spirituality and language of Appalachia with stunning authenticity, through characters that leap off the page.

With Mother of Rain, Zacharias has done her part to help preserve our mountain heritage for future generations. —Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot

Mother of RainA novel

Karen Spears Zacharias

Debut historical novel



Washed in the Blood

A novelLisa Alther

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Stormy Weather & Other StoriesLisa AltherCloth | $24.00t | H851978-0-88146-386-6e-book | $24.00t | H851e978-0-88146-366-8

How They ShineMelungeon

Characters in the fiction of AppalachiaKatherine Vande Brake

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Whiskey before BreakfastA novelBenjy GriffithCloth | $24.95t | H766978-0-88146-123-7

A haunting portrayal of the hardscrabble lives of Appalachian women and a tale of heartbreak and unending love

SepTeMBer 2013 | HiSTOriCAl fiCTiOn/MelunGeOn

5.75 x 8.75 | 272 pp. | Paper, $17.00t | 978-0-88146-448-1 | P469

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Creek half-breed and survivor of the Creek Indian War, Joie Kincaid and the nemesis she rescued from certain death after the Massacre at Fort Mims are kidnapped from a tea room in London. Joie awakens with amnesia—after having been struck on the head—to find herself in the hold of a ship sailing to the pirate Gasparilla’s lair in Charlotte Harbour and bound to a man she finds strangely familiar. to save himself and Joie, the preeminent scholar Godfrey Lewis Winkel is forced to take heroic action. As a story of passion unfolds between the two, Joie Kincaid must overcome a childhood of abuse and rejection to accept love she had never known. together they weather the tempests of pirates, illness, the Seminole War, family vendetta, and a hurricane to find their way to each other and a love neither could have imagined. Interwoven in this action-packed adventure is the long-forgotten tale of hope and betrayal at the negro Fort, the plight of the red Sticks after Horseshoe Bend, the greed of a pirate longing for a legacy, Andrew Jackson’s single-minded vision of a nation’s manifest destiny, and the British officers who seek to redeem a promise and forge an empire. In Pursuit continues the family saga begun in Swimming with Serpents, a story of love, war, and redemption set against the Creek Indian War.

Sharman Burson ramsey, genealogist

and historian, discovered her Native

American heritage and began writing a

family saga beginning with Swimming

with Serpents (Mercer 2012). This

Alabama native and graduate of the

University of Alabama (BSE) and Troy

University (MSE) splits her time between

Dothan, Alabama and Panama City,

Florida with her husband. Ramsey writes

on Southern culture on her website,

southern-style.com. Discover more about

her at sharmanbursonramsey.com.

In PursuitA novel

Sharman Burson Ramsey



Follow half-breed Joie Kincaid in this action-packed adventure of abduction, passion, love, greed, and war

SepTeMBer 2013 | HiSTOriCAl fiCTiOn

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Swimming with Serpents

A novelSharman Burson

RamseyCloth | $26.00t | H854

978-0-88146-391-0e-book | $26.00 | H854e

978-0-88146-379-8

Camp redemptionA novelRaymond L. AtkinsCloth | $25.00t | H864978-0-88146-426-9e-book | $25.00t | H864e978-0-88146-428-3

The Campfire Boys

A novelPhilip Lee Williams

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Masters and SavagesA novelJames DawseyCloth | $26.00t | H787978-0-88146-141-1

vladimir volkoff (1932–2005) was

born in Paris, the son of White Russian

émigrés. He was a member of the

faculty of Agnes Scott College and

taught creative writing at Mercer

University. Holder of a doctoral degree

from the Université de Liège, he was

an intelligence officer in the French

army during the Algerian War. Known

primarily for his espionage fiction, he

was a prolific writer who also published

essays, poems, plays, biographies,

science fiction, and the wildly popular

Lieutenant X spy novels for youth. He

was made a chevalier of the Légion

d’Honneur and won many literary prizes,

including the Grand Prix du Roman,

awarded by the French Academy.

John Marson Dunaway has taught

French and interdisciplinary studies at

Mercer University since 1972. He is a

native Georgian and holds a BA from

Emory and an MA and PhD from Duke

University.

Ilya is the uncouth, uneducated son of ardent Communist workers who becomes a war hero in the red Army. After the war, however, he experiences a radical conversion to Christianity and becomes a priest, but also eventually a KGB general and Metropolitan of Leningrad. Captivated by the prophecy of russia’s return to Christianity contained in the appearance of the virgin Mary to a few simple shepherds in portugal, Ilya decides he must make overtures to the new pontiff in an effort toward ecumenical collaboration that will facilitate the fulfillment of the prophecy. When he leaves for rome, his KGB superiors plot to have him assassinated, and the Mafia contacts involved also plot the assassination of John paul. Dostoevsky meets Le Carré in this rich tapestry of intrigue, betrayal, heroism, and faith. L’hôte du Pape (2004) is vladimir volkoff’s next-to-last novel and is, perhaps, his best. It combines Cold War strategizing and hints of the mysterious workings of the Holy Spirit in human affairs. Action takes place primarily in the uSSr, rome, and portugal, and includes significant flashbacks to World War II. volkoff takes the skimpy historical details of pope John paul I’s mysterious death and the equally mysterious death of a russian prelate in his arms just days before—and fleshes out the story as only a good espionage novelist could do, but with the added dimension of the role that divine providence could have been playing in these events. There is the stuff of a thriller here, but it is a serious novel written in a richly varied style that includes the brutal, coarse argot of the underworld, the allusiveness of an accomplished artist, and the soaring mysticism of the saints.

The Pope’s GuestA novel

Vladimir Volkoff †

translated by John Marson Dunaway


Late 1970s intrigue of KGB agents, Mafiosi’s schemes, and relations between the Vatican and Russian Orthodox hierarchies

JAnuAry 2014 | fiCTiOn/eSpiOnAGe/inTriGue

6 x 9 | 356 pp. | Paper, $24.00t | 978-0-88146-453-5 | P471

e-book, $20.00 | 978-0-88146-447-3


Ferrol Sams was born in Woolsey, Georgia on September 26, 1922, and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1942 at Mercer university and his Doctor of Medicine at emory university Medical School in 1949.

Mercer university established the Ferrol A. Sams Jr. Distinguished Chair of english in 1993 to bring a nationally prominent fiction writer, poet, or dramatist to Mercer each spring to teach creative writing and highlight the literary arts. In addition, Mercer university press annually awards the Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction to the best manuscript that speaks to the human condition in a Southern context.

During his medical career, Sams and his wife, Helen, were in private practice together in Fayetteville and, in 1987, they established the Fayette Medical Center. He embarked on a writing career at age sixty and captured a national audience of readers with his witty, affectionate portraits of life in Georgia between the world wars of what he has called “being raised right” in the rural South.

The trilogy begins with the work Run with the Horsemen, published in 1982. This novel, as with much of Sams’ work, is told from a first-person perspective, and the plot closely parallels the life of its author. The novel centers around a young prankster born in rural Depression-era Georgia. Sams recounts his childhood through the voice of porter osborne, Jr. The novel was warmly received by critics and the public, encouraging Sams to continue the tales of porter as he left the farm and headed to the university in The Whisper of the River. porter’s journey to “Willingham university” parallels Sams’s own education at Mercer. The trilogy was completed in 1991 with the publication of When All the World Was Young, in which Sams’s picaresque hero experiences World War II overseas as an army surgical assistant. Additional works include The Widow’s Mite and Other Stories (1987), Epiphany (1994), The Passing: Perspectives of Rural America (1988), Down Town (2007), and Christmas Gift! (1989 & 2010).

A natural storyteller whose works made him a popular writer in the South and garnered favorable national attention, Sams was honored in 2001 for fifty years of commitment and service to the people of Fayette County.

The Whisper of the River won the townsend prize for Fiction and was performed in 1992 for American public radio’s Radio Reader. In 2006, Run with the Horsemen was selected by Atlantans as the inaugural text in the Atlanta reads: one Book, one Community program. Sams received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Writers Association in 2012. Ferrol Sams died on January 29, 2013.

Ferrol Sams1922–2013

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Down TownFerrol Sams

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Christmas GiftFerrol SamsCloth w/ CD of author reading$25.00t | H810978-0-88146-211-1

A Death at the White Camellia

OrphanageMarly Youmans

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Camp redemptionA novelRaymond L. AtkinsCloth | $25.00t | H864978-0-88146-426-9e-book | $25.00t | H864e978-0-88146-428-3

2 0 1 2A plot for pridemore

Stephen Rothforthcoming—Spring/Summer 2014


Joseph Bathanti is poet laureate

of North Carolina and professor of

Creative Writing at Appalachian State

University. He is author of seven

books of poetry, two novels, and a

collection of stories. Half of What I Say

Is Meaningless, winner of the 2012

Will D. Campbell Award for Creative

Nonfiction, is forthcoming from Mercer

University Press.

In 1976, Joseph Bathanti left his home in Pittsburgh for a fourteen- month sojourn as a vIStA volunteer with the north Carolina Department of Correction. His new volume of poems, Concertina, recounts in lyrical sweep his entry into the surreal, brutal, and often terrifyingly beautiful netherworld of convicts and their keepers. It is a world with one foot still firmly planted in the old chain gang, the other venturing beyond the manacles of history into a realm of second chances, while the country, in the throes of its bicentennial celebration, still swoons from Watergate and its aftermath. What’s more, Concertina, is an outsider’s meditation on the American South and the power of place to transform not only language, but to instill in the speaker the impulse to tell the story of everything his eye lights upon. Indeed, Bathanti’s world is as much about the geography, the very ether, of north Carolina, as it is about prisons. His voice is contemplative, poised on a tightrope of its own making, pitched near detonation. There are poems about the gas chamber, bounty hunters, bloodhounds and violence. But there are also poems about yard basketball games, the prison kitchen, Christmas parties, children visiting their imprisoned mothers, guards as undone by their lives in prison as the prisoners, and released convicts stumbling into society after years behind bars. even raskolnikov makes a cameo. All the while, the speaker is falling in love with another vIStA, a woman from Georgia. Above all, these poems doggedly insist that, even in abject suffering, sustained love and shared humanity supply redemption.

Concertinapoems

Joseph Bathanti

Poet Laureate of North Carolina


A revealing glimpse into the world of convicts and their keepers—poems of suffering, love, redemption, and geography

OCTOBer 2013 | pOeTry

Going farther into the Woods than

the Woods Gopoems

Seaborn JonesPaper | $15.00t | P443

978-0-88146-272-2

Writing on napkins at the Sunshine ClubAn Anthology of poets Writing in MaconKevin Cantwell, editorPaper | $27.00t | P432978-0-88146-251-7

The flagrant Deadpoems

Stephen BluestoneCloth | $28.00s | H714

978-0-88146-050-6Paper | $16.00t | P338

978-0-88146-075-9

Georgia Cowboy poets David Fillingim, editorPaper | $25.00t | P407978-0-88146-183-1

The poems in Decembers have been written, usually one a year, beginning in 1973 when the author moved from the South to new Wilmington, pennsylvania, where he took a job teaching creative writing at Westminster College. They are written to accompany the Christmas cards he and his wife Jane writes each year to keep in touch with friends from college, graduate school, and earlier jobs. These poems arise out of memory, both of the author and those of others. In them perkins is much more interested in the images of the season, the sights, the sounds, the scents, the textures, and the tastes than he is in the abstractions: joy, love, warmth, gratitude, etc. He is more interested in what the season is than in what it means. A short story that closes the book tells of how one day perkins saw one of his December poems on nancy Lewis’s refrigerator in Bethany, Connecticut, and wondered how many other refrigerators were so decorated. The story came out of that wondering. We all have memories of the Christmas season; they are all deeply personal and unique, and yet, curiously they are all pretty much alike. readers will find fragments of their pasts as they read these poems.

perkins is the author of Snakes, Butterbeans, and the Discovery of Electricity, 9780865548145, $25.00t, cloth. This book is a print-on-demand, non-returnable title. Individuals may order through amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com. Booksellers contact Ingram.

James A. perkins is distinguished

professor emeritus of English and Public

Relations at Westminster College. He

holds degrees from Centre College,

Miami University, and the University

of Tennessee. A poet and a short story

writer, Perkins has also edited books

on Robert Penn Warren, Robert Drake,

David Madden, and other Southern

writers. A Fulbright senior lecturer

at Seoul National University in 1998,

he was given Westminster College’s

Distinguished Faculty Award in 2006.

Decemberspoems

James A. Perkins

Poems of personal memories and images of the season


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Abandoned Quarrynew and Selected

poemsJohn Lane

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under the rock umbrellanew and Selected poemsWilliam Walsh, editorPaper | $35.00t | P341978-0-88146-047-6


elegies for the Water

poemsPhilip Lee Williams

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flower Seeker An epic poem of William BartramPhilip Lee WilliamsLimited Edition | $75.00t | H807978-0-88146-208-1Cloth | $55.00t | H820978-0-88146-228-9Paper | $25.00t | P414978-0-88146-221-0


elizabeth Cox is the author of novels, short stories, and poetry. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and others. Her short stories have been read on NPR, and one selected for the O’Henry Award Collection. Her fiction won the Robert Penn Warren Award and the Lillian Smith Award. Cox taught at Duke University for seventeen years, and in the Bennington Low Residency Program for ten years. She held the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at UMass-Lowell, and taught at MIT. Most recently, Cox shared the John Cobb Chair of Humanities with her husband C. Michael Curtis at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

These poems, written over a period of thirty years, reflect both the experience of growing up and growing old. The poems seek to find a primitive connection to a natural world that is fast disappearing. They look at what is lost and what is still present, though ignored, in twenty-first-century life. The familiar subjects of love, death, disaster, discovery, grief, loss, and joy are explored; but the underlying power that keeps emerging lies in the need to rely on images that try to speak a language that cannot be spoken, of music/rhythm to enter that familiar place of the heart, and of a river, the tennessee river, that drives the heart of this poet.

I Have Told You and Told Youpoems

Elizabeth Cox


On the north Slope

poemsCatharine Savage

BrosmanPaper | $17.00t | P444

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BreakwaterpoemsCatharine Savage BrosmanCloth | $30.00t | H797978-0-88146-180-0Paper | $18.00t | P391978-0-88146-163-3

The Throne of psyche

poemsMarly Youmans

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The House Began to pitchpoemsKelly WhiddonPaper | $16.00t | P453978-0-88146-390-3

This collection of fifty-eight poems reflects the heart of the poet


6 x 9 | 96 pp. | Paper, $18.00t | 978-0-88146-447-4 | P468

Memory’s Mist is a collection of personal essays about life in the South as seen through the eyes of author Jackie K. Cooper.

The stories contained hold up a mirror upon which the shared traits and experiences of life can be seen. Some of the experiences shared are humorous, some are sad, some are dramatic, and some are life affirming. Through them all runs a ribbon of hope and optimism.

As Cooper reflects back on his past, the vision has been somewhat dimmed by the mist of memory but—with the help of family and friends—he is able to part the mist and have a clear view of the past which in many ways signals the future. As with his other books Cooper finds life full of surprises and simple joys amid the tumultuous and uncertain lives we all live.

Jackie K. Cooper is the author of six books and is a film critic whose movie reviews appear on jackiekcooper.com, rottentomatoes.com, huffingtonpost.com, as well as in several newspapers throughout Georgia. In addition to being a featured guest on radio and TV shows across the South, he has his own weekly television show The Jackie K. Cooper Show, which runs on several cable channels in Middle Georgia. Cooper was one of the founders of the Southeastern Film Critics Association and is also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists

Association.

Memory’s MistThe view from the Journey

Jackie K. Cooper



Back to the GardenThe Goal of the

JourneyJackie K. CooperPaper | $18.00t | P423

978-0-88146-234-0

The Sunrise remembersMemories of the JourneyJackie K. CooperPaper | $20.00t | P381978-0-88146-124-4

The BookbinderMore Stories

from the roadJackie K. CooperCloth | $25.00t | H702

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Chances and Choicesfurther Tales of a Gentle Southern ManJackie K. CooperPaper | $20.00t | P318978-0-86554-973-9

A collection of personal essays about life and love

SepTeMBer 2013 | MeMOir/eSSAyS

6 x 9 | 224 pp. | Paper, $18.00t | 978-0-88146-464-1 | P476

e-book, $14.00t | 978-0-88146-467-2


Sam pickering grew up in Nashville,

Tennessee. After attending Sewanee,

Cambridge, and Princeton, he started

teaching English, a happy career that

enabled him to roam distant countries

and nearby libraries. He has spent sixty-

eight years in classrooms beginning

with kindergarten and has written more

than twenty-five books. He is a member

of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Alexander Smith stated that a good essayist needed “an ability to discern the infinite suggestiveness of common things.” Arthur Benson seconded the idea, saying an essayist needed a “far-ranging curiosity.” For three decades Sam pickering has written essays, his words rolling in a fine frenzy over ordinary life discovering the marvelous and the absurd. His curiosity ranges, but it also rumpuses and rollicks. He wanders the Cumberland plateau in tennessee, rural Connecticut, farmland in nova Scotia, and islands in the sun. Strangers tell him their life stories—tales that are almost as odd as the fictional characters he meets. He runs half-marathons and wins prizes, but finishes so late in the day that he misses award ceremonies. His good friend David tells him, “Sam, if you weren’t so damn smart, you would have been a great success.”

pickering writes a lot about teaching, and classroom doings quicken his pages. “In my dormitory I keep a stuffed cat on the table by my bed,” Kirsten told him last year. “I’ve attached a fishing line to its tail. Just outside the window of my room is a tall tree with lots of branches. I live in a quadrangle through which campus guides lead prospective students and their parents. Sometimes when I see a group approaching, I toss the cat into the tree then duck below my window sill and meow. often the groups stop, and I hear people saying things like “look at that poor cat” and “oh, dear, what can we do?” The aim of an essayist, Benson wrote, was “to make people interested in life and in themselves.”

Add smiles and laughter, a smidgen of melancholy, and a pinch or two of happy lies, and you have pickering the essayist.

The Splendour Fallsessays

Sam Pickering



A Comfortable Boy

A MemoirSam Pickering

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Tramps WalletSam PickeringPaper | $25.00t | P424978-0-88146-235-7

Begin with rock, end with Water

essaysJohn Lane

Paper | $25.00t | P451978-0-88146-384-2

WaldenHenry David Thoreau†; Introduction by Sam PickeringPaper | $18.00t | P421978-0-88146-231-9

Essays of travels, tales, characters, students, and life

OCTOBer 2013 | MeMOir/eSSAyS

5.75 x 8.75 | 224 pp. | Paper, $20.00t | 978-0-88146-449-8 | P470

e-book, $16.00 | 978-0-88146-451-1


The Reverend Will D. Campbell, a renegade preacher and author who joined the civil rights struggle in the 1950s, quit organized religion, and fought injustice with nonviolent protests and a storyteller’s arsenal of autobiographical tales and fictional histories, died on Monday, June 3, 2013 in nashville. He was eighty-eight.

The son of Mississippi cotton farmers, Campbell grew up in a backwater of segregated schools, churches and cracker-barrel country stores where men chewed tobacco and spat bigotry. He was ordained a Baptist minister at age seventeen and attended three colleges and yale Divinity School before embarking on an unsatisfying life as a small-town pastor and then chaplain at the university of Mississippi. He left ole Miss amid death threats over his integrationist views.

Will Davis Campbell was born on July 18, 1924, in Amite County, Mississippi to Lee and Hancie Campbell. He and his sister and two brothers attended local schools, and he went to Louisiana College before joining the Army in 1942. He was a combat medic in the South pacific in World War II. In 1946, he married Brenda Fisher. They had a son, Webb, and two daughters, penny and Bonnie. They survive him, as do four grandchildren.

After earning a degree in english from Wake Forest College in 1950 and a year at tulane university, Campbell graduated from yale Divinity School in 1952. His two years at a small Baptist church in taylor, Louisiana, dissuaded him from a pastoral career; two more as a chaplain at ole Miss coincided with his growing opposition to segregation.

After his years in the civil rights movement, he directed the Committee of Southern Churchmen and for decades published Katallagete, its quarterly journal of politics and social change, whose title referred to a biblical passage on reconciliation. He wrote books at his farm near Mount Juliet and traveled widely, lecturing and ministering to followers who shared his distrust of institutions.

His books included critiques of modern Christianity, Race and the Renewal of the Church (1962) and Up to Our Steeples in Politics (1970); spiritual-historical novels, The Glad River (1982) and Cecelia’s Sin (1983); memoirs, Forty Acres and a Goat (1986) and Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell (2010, with richard C. Goode); and various biographies, histories and children’s books.

In 2000, Campbell received the national endowment for the Humanities medal from president Bill Clinton and was profiled in a pBS documentary, “God’s Will,” narrated by ossie Davis.

—partial obituary taken from the New York Times

Will Davis Campbell

1924–2013

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The Stem of JesseThe Costs of

Community at a 1960s Southern School

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The Convention A parableWill D. CampbellPaper | $20.00t | P368978-0-88146-084-1

Breathing and Walking Around

Meditations on a life

Kathy A. BradleyPaper | $20.00t | P442

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Cecelia’s Sin A novellaWill D. CampbellPaper | $35.00t | P026978-0-86554-213-6Print-on-demand onlyOrder from amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com

Half of What i Say is MeaninglessessaysJoseph Bathantiforthcoming—Spring/Summer 2014

Martha M. ezzard is a lawyer, writer

(award-winning writer for The Atlanta

Journal-Constitution), and farm winery

owner, but she has always been a

passionate lover of the outdoors. The

Ezzards raised their family in Colorado

where she was a press aide to the

governor and served in the state Senate

while practicing law. A native of Atlanta,

Ezzard returned to her Georgia roots and

her husband’s family farm.

Martha M. Ezzard and her physician husband John are among the pioneers in the movement of professionals trading busy city careers for a return to the land. While this story about saving a family farm is distinctly Southern, it typifies the national locally grown movement which has begun to sweep the country. Locally grown foods call for wines that are a taste of the local earth—what wine aficionados call the terroir, the soils and climate that give the grapes unique flavors not found in California or Burgundy or anywhere other than, in this case, tiger Mountain.

What follows initially are long sweaty days of post hole digging, trellis wire stringing, and weed pulling mixed with a few chiggers and ticks—but also the thrill of sighting a giant blue heron in the dawn mist of the farm pond—of hearing the honking of geese at sunset. There are times when the city high rise still beckons, but what Martha and John learn after burning smudge pots all night in a late April freeze only to see their pink buds turn brown despite it all, is that wine grapes have a second bud –and so too, because of their shared venture, does their relationship.

The Second Bud is a story that reflects today’s agricultural evolution in the southeast, from tobacco, logging, and truck farming to agri-tourism, outdoor recreation, vineyards, and farm wineries. Filled with small town characters, unlikely obstacles and dirt based success, this memoir is a down home version of “under a tuscan Sun,” a couple’s risk taking to revive a fifth-generation family farm in the tiny north Georgia town of tiger by cultivating fine wine grapes. It will appeal to romantics, wannabe winemakers, and all who covet the rural life.

The Second BudDeserting the City for a Farm Winery

Martha M. Ezzard

Also available as an e-bookTIGeR MounTaIn WIneSthe ezzards undertook their risky wine growing venture in rural north Georgia where sweet tea has long been the drink of choice. John chose some unique european vinifera that would produce quality fruit in southeastern growing conditions, while Martha worried that she would be peddling such weird wine grapes out of the back of a pickup truck. eventually, the forlorn looking sticks in the ground produced wines that won gold and silver medals in top east coast and California competitions.

PeTIT ManSenG A crisp, tangy white wine with a bouquet of fresh green apples. elegant with light cheeses or seafood.

V I o G n I e R A dry white wine with an elusive bouquet of apricot, peach, and honeysuckle. Great with grilled salmon, trout, or shrimp, this wine also complements goat cheese.

M a l B e C A smooth-finishing wine with outstanding fruit character reminiscent of its native southwest France. traditionally paired with cassoulet, Malbec was a favorite of ernest Hemingway.

n o R T o n A native American grape, once grown at Monticello, that produces a dry, full-bodied wine with bold fruit qualities of plum and cherries. excellent with steak, burgers, or barbeque.

TannaTthis dry, red wine exhibits dark berry flavors and soft tannins. pair with lamb or beef.

TouRIGa naCIonal produces a smooth-finishing, dry red wine with a rich mulberry aroma. Superb with braised pork.

R aBun ReD tiger Mountain vineyards’ signature five-grape red blend, it has hints of blackberry and cherry, this wine pairs nicely with pasta, grilled meats, and ethnic foods

CaBeRneT FR anCA bold Bordeaux grape that thrives at tiger Mountain and exhibits deep cherry character and an smooth finish. pairs with mushroom dishes, quail, chicken, and soft cheeses.

RoSé A semidry, crisp summer wine reminiscent of the popular rosés of provence, France. excellent with salads, fruit, brie or goat cheese.

A couple’s risk and personal trials to save a cherished fifth-generation family farm in the mountains of North Georgia

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In A Southern Woman’s Guide to Herbs, Jaclyn Weldon White takes a break from penning stories of murder and mayhem to share her love and knowledge of growing and using herbs, the helpful plants. In a manner as informal as a neighborly chat, White explores designing herb gardens to suit the reader and gives common sense tips on planting and caring for them.

In later chapters, she concentrates on preserving herbs for year-round use and shares some of her favorite recipes, covering everything from cocktails to desserts. The shrimp and herb pasta for two is perfect for a romantic evening while the lavender cookies with their pastel icing will have the kids begging for more.

In addition to using herbs for cooking, White presents a number of the most common medicinal and cosmetic uses for these plants along with a delightful chapter of herbal crafts. There’s even a humorous segment on herbal magic for readers who might want to whip up a quick love potion.

Illustrated with the author’s own photographs, A Southern Woman’s Guide to Herbs will be a book you read and consult over and over again.

Jaclyn Weldon White is the author of

eight books and numerous magazine

articles, and has twice won the Georgia

Author of the Year award. White is a

jewelry designer and has also been an

avid herb gardener for more than twenty

years. She lives in Hoschton, Georgia.

a Southern Woman’s Guide

to HerbsJaclyn Weldon White


The Greatest Champion That

never WasThe life of W. l.

“young” StriblingJaclyn Weldon White

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A light-hearted guide to growing and using herbs

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A native of Mississippi, robert D. Jenkins, Sr. grew up in Chamblee, Georgia where is first studied the Civil War as part of the fourth grade curriculum where he chose “War in Georgia” for a class project. He was hooked and has been at it ever since. A graduate of Georgia Southern (BBA) and Mercer University (JD), Jenkins is

an attorney in Dalton, Georgia.

The Battle of Peach Tree Creek marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy, for it turned the page from the patient defense displayed by General Joseph e. Johnston to the bold offense called upon by his replacement, General John Bell Hood. until this point in the campaign, the Confederates had fought primarily in the defensive from behind earthworks, forcing Federal commander William t. Sherman to either assault fortified lines, or go around them in flanking moves. At peach tree Creek, the roles would be reversed for the first time, as Southerners charged yankee lines.

The Gate City, as Atlanta has been called, was in many ways the capstone to the Confederacy’s growing military-industrial complex and was the transportation hub of the fledgling nation. For the South it had to be held. For the north it had to be taken. With General Johnston removed for failing to parry the yankee thrust into Georgia, the fate of Atlanta and the Confederacy now rested on the shoulders of thirty-three-year-old Hood, whose body had been torn by the war.

peach tree Creek was the first of three battles in eight days in which Hood led the Confederate Army to desperate, but unsuccessful, attempts to repel the Federals encircling Atlanta. This particular battle started the South on a downward spiral from which she would never recover. After peach tree Creek and its companion battles for Atlanta, the clear-hearing Southerner could hear the death throes of the Confederacy. It was the first nail in the coffin of Atlanta and Dixie.

The Battle of Peach Tree CreekHood’s First Sortie, July 20, 1864

Robert D. Jenkins, Sr.


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GriswoldvilleWilliam Bragg HarrisPaper | $30.00t | P396978-0-88146-168-8

The battle that became the death knell of the Confederacy

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The South A Tour of its

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life in Dixie during the War Mary A. H. Gay†;

J. H. Segars, editorPaper | $30.00t | P213978-0-86554-749-0

Georgia’s Confederate Monuments is the product of two decades of work, during which time the author has traveled throughout the state to photograph the memorials to the men and women of the Confederate States of America, to study their inscriptions, and to document information about their construction.

The monuments are built in a variety of styles. The most typical monument is the statue on the town square. A close second is an obelisk in a cemetery or elsewhere, with a funereal design rather than a martial one. next are the monuments honoring specific men or units. There are several monuments dedicated to the women of the Confederacy. In addition, the state is also graced with memorial walls, memorial stones, and the odd boulder, fountain, and arch—plus one Sigma Chi Cross, one lion, and one very tall chimney. Georgia’s Confederate Monuments includes them all.

These works of art and their eloquent inscriptions express a nation’s profound grief, praise the soldiers’ bravery and patriotism, and pay homage to the cause for which they fought.

Gould B. Hagler, Jr. is a long-time lobbyist, representing the insurance industry at the state level. He holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Georgia State University. A native of Augusta, he resides in Dunwoody, Georgia. Hagler is a member of several historical and hereditary societies, including the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta (president, 2011–2012) and the Sons of Confederate Veterans (commander, John B. Gordon Camp 46, 1996–1997).

Georgia’s Confederate

MonumentsIn Honor of a Fallen nation

Gould B. Hagler, Jr.


A complete pictoral guide to Georgia’s Confederate monuments

JAnuAry 2014 | Civil WAr HiSTOry

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Breaking the Heartland

The Civil War in Georgia

John D. Fowler and David B. Parker, editors

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Civil War Macon The History of a Confederate CityRichard W. Iobst† Paper | $35.00t | P400 978-0-88146-172-5

The World’s largest prison

The Story of Camp lawtonJohn K. Derden

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“i Will Give Them One More Shotramsey’s 1st regiment Georgia volunteersGeorge Winston MartinCloth | $45.00t | H818978-0-88146-219-7

Going Back the Way They CameThe phillips legion

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To Honor These Men A History of the phillips Georgia legion infantry BattalionRichard M. Coffman and Kurt D. GrahamCloth | $40.00t | H733978-0-88146-060-5


John inscore essick is assistant

professor of Church History at the

Baptist Seminary of Kentucky in

Georgetown, KY. He holds degrees

from Appalachian State University (BS),

Campbell University Divinity School

(MDiv), and Baylor University (PhD).

Thomas Grantham (1633/34–1692) provided important leadership as an english nonconformist and General Baptist polemicist and messenger in the second half of the seventeenth century. Grantham was baptized around 1652 in the Baptist church at Boston, Lincolnshire, and became one of the most significant Baptist figures of the period, yet no major historical study of Grantham has appeared until now.

In this first study of its kind, John Inscore essick demonstrates that Grantham was instrumental in organizing and legitimizing the General Baptist movement in england, especially in the counties of Lincolnshire and norfolk. readers interested in Baptist history will find new information about Grantham’s life and ministry as well as a comprehensive introduction to his many writings and their context. The chapter on the office of Messenger builds on and expands the work of John F. v. nicholson by examining Grantham’s role in consolidating the office of Messenger and establishing it as a distinctive third ministerial office among the General Baptists by the end of the seventeenth century. Those interested in nonconformity and dissent considered more broadly will discover that Grantham brought a sense of unity and legitimacy to the General Baptist movement, as he debated with spokesmen of the Church of england, other Dissenters, and even among his own kind.

Still, as Inscore essick shows in his treatment of a little-known collection of personal letters, Grantham could act intentionally and irenically with non-Baptist Christians, forging a deep friendship with a Church of england clergyman.

Thomas GranthamGod’s Messenger from Lincolnshire

John Inscore Essick


Baptist TheologyA four-Century

StudyJames Leo Garrett

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A Genetic History of Baptist ThoughtWilliam H. BrackneyPaper | $40.00s | P269978-0-86554-913-5

francis Johnson and the english

Separatist influenceScott Culpepper

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A Short Declaration of the Mystery of iniquity(1611–1612)Richard GrovesCloth | $35.00t | H429978-0-86554-574-8

The first major historical study of the life and writings of a significant seventeenth-century Baptist leader in England

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Baptist Autographs in the John rylands

university library of Manchester,

1741–1845Timothy D. Whelan

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The Challenges of roger Williamsreligious liberty, violent persecution, and the BibleJames P. Byrd, Jr.Cloth | $40.00s | H582978-0-86554-771-1

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The James n. Griffith Series in Baptist StudiesThis series on Baptist life and thought explores and investigates Baptist history, offers analyses of Baptist theologies, provides studies in hymnody, and examines the role of Baptists in societies and cultures around the world. The series also includes classics of Baptist literature, letters, diaries, and other writings. —Walter B. Shurden, series editor For a complete listing, visit our website

Thomas Grantham: God’s Messenger from lincolnshire John Inscore Essick H876 | 978-0-88146-461-0 | $30.00t

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Baptist principles: With practical Applications and Questions for Discussion George H. Tooze P464 | 978-0-88146-448-2 | $19.00t

The father of landmarkism: The life of Ben M. Bogard J. Kristian Pratt H869 | 978-0-88146-434-4 | $30.00t

A Miracle of Grace: An Autobiography E. Glenn Hinson H856 | 978-0-88146-394-1 | $35.00t

George liele’s life and legacy David T. Shannon†, senior editor H853 | 978-0-88146-389-7 | $35.00t

Beyond the Barriers: Overcoming Hostility in the Church William E. Hull H848 | 978-0-88146-382-8 | $25.00t

And your Daughters Shall prophesy Karen Massey, editor P447 | 978-0-88146-285-2 | $25.00t

A Choosing people: The History of the Seventh Day Baptists Don A. Sanford†, H846 | 978-0-88146-284-5 | $35.00t

nurturing the vision: first Baptist Church, raleigh, 1812–2012 W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. H845 | 978-0-88146-283-8 | $35.00t

Diverging loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia Bruce T. Gourley H833 | 978-0-88146-258-6 | $35.00t

Baptists in early north americaComprising thirteen volumes, this new series will provide published scholarly editions of key Baptist congregational records that detail the grassroots community of Baptists in seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century north America. each stamped hardcover volume will include an introductory essay by a specialist, the actual text of the records of congregations (some never before published), critical annotations—covering biographical, geographical, and church historical data—and a bibliography, plus a comprehensive biographical, geographical, and church historical index of names and subjects. —William H. Brackney, general editor For a complete listing, visit our website Baptists in early north America—Swansea, Massachusetts, volume i H871 | 978-0-880146-439-9 | $60.00s

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Sports and Religion SeriesThis series explores the connection of religion and sports and includes books that examine sports through various diciplines and cultural forms (literature, history, music, poetry, among others)—books that consider how sports challenge, inspire, or function as religion. —Joseph L. Price, series editor For a complete listing, visit our websiteprotestant ethic and the Spirit of Sport: How Calvinism and Capitalism Shaped America’s Games Steven J. Overman P419 | 978-0-88146-226-5 | $35.00t

Buddha on the Backstretch: The Spiritual Wisdom of Driving 200 MpH Arlynda Lee Boyer H782 | 978-0-88146-174-9 | $27.00t

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The Holy Trinity of American Sports: Civil religion in football, Baseball, and Basketball Craig A. Forney P401 | 978-0-88146-173-2 | $25.00t

rounding the Bases: Baseball and religion in America Joseph L. Price H708 | 978-0-86554-999-9 | $35.00t

Safe at Home: A Memoir of God, Baseball, and family Marc A. Jolley H666 | 978-0-86554-740-7 | $20.00t

The unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern Sports Robert J. Higgs and Michael Braswell P304 | 978-0-86554-956-2 | $25.00t

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International Journal of Religion and SportInternational Journal of Religion and Sport is a refereed print publication analyzing the interchanges among world religions, religious practice, spirituality, and global sport. The editors of the journal invite contributions that take seriously the study of religion and sport as well as scholarship investigating notions of sport as religious or spiritual practice. Theses contributions should use diverse methodological approaches to religion and sport from a variety of disciplines such as myth and ritual studies, historical studies, popular culture studies, and liturgical studies. The editors welcome original scholarship in english from international contributors in the form of essays, book reviews, and film reviews. For a complete listing, visit our websiteinternational Journal of religion and Sport, volume 2, 2013 Eric Bain-Selbo and Andrew Parker, editors P418 | 2151-0679-2 | $30.00t

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Bill J. leonard is James and Marilyn

Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies

and Church History at the School of

Divinity, Wake Forest University. Widely

recognized for his work in American,

Southern, and Baptist religious studies,

he is author or editor of some twenty-

one books including Baptist Ways: A

History and Baptists in America. Leonard

holds a PhD from Boston University.

As the twenty-first century muddles along, perhaps the phrase “Can I get a witness?” will sharpen our thinking about the current state of religion in American culture, particularly for protestants. Indeed, the permanent transition that characterizes American religious life offers an opportunity to revisit the word “witness” and its meaning for the future. The materials in this volume survey issues in American religious communities developed through academic research, classroom teaching, sermons, and years of working with ministerial students. A final section is a collection of representative columns written for Associated Baptist press, addressing questions in American religio-cultural life, past, and present. each essay reflects responses to a time in which old systems of organization and identity are changing, reforming, declining, and disappearing from the ecclesiastical landscape. Thus methods for offering Christian witness are undergoing significant reexamination by denominations, congregations and individuals. The witness of the church remains a work in progress as faith communities celebrate shared identity through tradition, worship, instruction and care of souls, while refining specific ministries in response to location, conscience or a specific historical moment. If the essays in this volume facilitate a reexamination of the nature of Christian and ecclesial witness in twenty-first-century America, they will have done their duty.

Can I Get a Witness?essays, Sermons, and reflections

Bill J. Leonard

Reexamining Christian witness in present-day America

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A Church for rachel

Charles E. PooleCloth | $19.00t | H860

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Surviving the Stained-Glass JungleWilliam L. SelfCloth | $19.00t | H831978-0-88146-256-2

is God a Christian?Creating a

Communtiy of Conversation

R. Kirby GodseyCloth | $19.95t | H825

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Cancer and Healing Memoirs of Gratitude and HopeEssays from eighteenBaptists with various forms of cancerCharles W. Deweese, editorPaper | $20.00t | P450978-0-88146-343-9e-book | $20.00 | P450e978-0-88146-344-6

Kierkegaard’s Metaphors

Jamie LorentzenCloth | $39.95t | H548

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In recent decades, many moral philosophers have begun to think more carefully about the significance of our inveterate story-telling habits for moral reflection. For some time those who promoted narrative’s central role for ethics on a variety of levels seemed to be commanding the field; but more recently skeptics of narrative’s relevance have begun to mount a vigorous resistance. Some of these struggles have played out on the terrain of Kierkegaard studies, and this book seeks to move the battle lines forward, both with respect to the significance of narrative more generally and to its place in Kierkegaard’s authorship.

Three theses about the presuppositions, ends, and limits of Kierkegaard’s use of narrative are at its heart. First, Kierkegaard’s account of the moral life in terms of gift and task, a structure that lends itself naturally to narrative display, provides a compelling rationale for the pervasive presence of narrative forms in his writings. Second, Kierkegaard chiefly intends his use of narrative as a pedagogical tool for building up his reader in virtues that are acquired in a narrative pattern he calls “repetition,” a pattern of loss and then recovery in a new key. Finally, despite the importance of narrative in Kierkegaard’s moral reflection, he does recognize its limits, though he does not find them in the same places as today’s narrative skeptics.

Instead his arguments and writings entail that narratives, necessary for giving meaning to the passing moments of our lives, must also be contextualized in the moment of encounter with the eternal and divine, the moment that is the fullness of time. Colton advances these theses through detailed readings of several Kierkegaardian texts as well as interactions with contemporary moral philosophers and narrative theorists, furthering both our understanding of Kierkegaard’s thought and the current debate on the significance of narrative for ethics.

randall G. Colton is professor of

Philosophy at Cardinal Glennon College

of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis.

He holds an MA in philosophy from Baylor

University and a PhD from Saint Louis

University. Colton has published in the

International Kierkegaard Commentary

and The Thomist.

Repetition and the Fullness

of TimeGift, task, and narrative in

Kierkegaard’s upbuilding ethics

Randall G. Colton

Offering a new interpretation of Kiekegaard’s ethics in terms of gift and task

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MerCer KierKeGAArD SerieS

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Kant and Kiekegaard on

Time and eternityRonald M. Green

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Subjectivity and religious Truth in the philosophy of Soren KierkegaardMerigala GabrielPaper | $30.00t | P398978-0-88146-170-1



lisa D. powell is assistant professor

of Theology and Women’s Studies at

St. Ambrose University in Davenport,

Iowa. She is the first-place winner of

the 2011 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

New Scholar Award for her research

on Sor Juana. Powell received her PhD

in Systematic Theology from Princeton

Theological Seminary.

Kierkegaard argued that Christianity is a lived religion, not a set of doctrines to be cognitively affirmed. This means theology’s proper focus is reflection on revelation within the God-human relationship, and human existence—always in process and shaped by different communities, relationships, and contexts—is significant to theological construction. As Christian knowledge is a relationship that cannot be communicated directly, theology is never concluded and cannot adequately function within totalizing systems. The writings of seventeenth-century Mexican nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, provide an exemplary direction for contemporary theologies mindful of this need for indirect communication. Her writings show a respect of others’ cognitive freedom and their differing contexts and perspectives. utilizing the religious work of this woman from Mexico’s colonial past, powell builds a theological case for the inclusion of literary genres in the theological discipline, a move that resists western philosophy’s dominance of form and opens the theological canon. The field of theology has witnessed a significant shift toward the perspectives of those outside dominant Western culture; in addition to featuring such a perspective through highlighting the work of this subaltern woman, this work provides additional methodological groundwork for this continued pursuit. powell maintains that the genres Sor Juana employs—poetry, drama, and epistle—are especially appropriate for the communication of Christian knowledge. This book serves as a proposal for open forms of theological discourse marked by the limits of religious understanding emerging from human difference. Theology’s reflection, then, can be understood anew as a “theology within the limits of the inconclusive.”

Inconclusive Theologies Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Kierkegaard, and Theological Discourse

Lisa D. Powell


Building a case for the inclusion of context and human difference in theological discourse

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