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Howard Thurman and Mother of Modern the Disinherited Evangelicalism
A Heart Lost in Wonder
A Religious Biography
The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears
Paul Harvey
Arlin C. Migliazzo
The Life and Faith of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Teacher. Minister. Theologian. Writer. Mystic. Activist. No single label can capture the multiplicity of Howard Thurman’s life, but his influence is evident in the most significant aspects of the civil rights movement. In 1936, he visited Mahatma Gandhi in India and subsequently brought Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent resistance across the globe to the United States. Later, through his book Jesus and the Disinherited, he foresaw a theology of American liberation based on the life of Jesus as a dispossessed Jew under Roman rule. As racial justice once again comes to the forefront of American consciousness, Howard Thurman’s faith and life have much to say to a new generation of the disinherited and all those who march alongside them.
Foreword by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
“An illuminating account of the life and legacy of Howard Thurman. . . . This should go far to raise the profile of a lesser-known spiritual leader whose writings, sermons, and mentorship helped lay the foundation for the civil rights movement.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
“Howard Thurman was one of the few great intellectual giants and spiritual geniuses of the twentieth century! Paul Harvey is keeping his legacy alive!” — CORNEL WEST author of Race Matters
Paul Harvey is professor of history and presidential teaching scholar at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He is the author or coauthor of several books on religion and race in US history, including The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, which was named a “Top 25 Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice magazine in 2013. 978-0-8028-7677-5 | Jacketed Hardcover | 256 pages $28.99 US | $38.99 CAN | £22.99 UK | Available
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Although she was never as prominent as Billy Graham or many of the other iconic male evangelists of the twentieth century, Henrietta Mears was arguably the single most influential woman in the shaping of modern evangelicalism. Her seminal work What the Bible Is All About sold millions of copies, and key figures in the early modern evangelical movement like Bill Bright, Harold John Ockenga, and Jim Rayburn frequently cited her teachings as a formative part of their ministry. Graham himself stated that Mears was the most important female influence in his life other than his mother or wife. In this first comprehensive biography of Mears, readers will find a religious leader worthy of emulation in today’s world—one who sought an alternative to the divisive polemics of her own day while staying fiercely committed to the faith. “A fascinatingly detailed portrait of an inspiring teacher and irrepressible leader.”
Catharine Randall Foreword by Lauren Winner “A warm and welcoming introduction to Gerard Manley Hopkins, which focuses not only on his poetry but also on his religion, thus filling in the blanks for all those who have wondered what inspired his groundbreaking artistry.” — JAMES MARTIN, SJ author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage
“Catharine Randall wonderfully captures the sacramental sensibility of a poet and priest for whom the world, to those attuned to the Incarnation, is indeed ‘charged with the grandeur of God’ because the Holy Spirit ‘broods, with warm breast, and with ah! bright wings.’” — KENNETH L. WOODWARD former Religion Editor of Newsweek
“Catharine Randall has composed a luminous retelling of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s life as his intermittent awakenings to the mystery of the Incarnation. With great attention to detail, she bears witness to the sacramental moments when Hopkins’s poetry proclaims the revelation of God and Man as indissolubly joined together.” — DONALD E. PEASE Dartmouth College
— GEORGE MARSDEN
author of Religion and American Culture: A Brief History
“Arlin Migliazzo has given Henrietta Mears what she has long deserved: a thorough, judicious, and winsome account of her central role in shaping modern evangelicalism.” — MARGARET BENDROTH executive director, Congregational Library and Archives
Arlin C. Migliazzo is professor emeritus of history at Whitworth University, where he taught from 1983 to 2018. His many publications include books, articles, and essays on ethnic studies, the Pacific Northwest, colonial South Carolina, church-related higher education, the history of evangelicalism, and comparative democratic development. 978-0-8028-7792-5 | Paperback | 352 pages | $29.99 US $39.99 CAN | £23.99 UK | Available
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“The point of hagiography is not blunt emulation— few of us will read A Heart Lost in Wonder, or indeed Hopkins himself, and take up writing verse. Rather, saints deepen our questions, and A Heart Lost in Wonder is a hagiography insofar as the experience of looking at Hopkins’s faithfulness moves us to ask about our own.” — LAUREN F. WINNER from the foreword
Catharine Randall is scholar-in-residence in religion at Dartmouth College. She is the author of numerous books, including Earthly Treasures, The Wisdom of Animals, and From a Far Country. 978-0-8028-7770-3 | Paperback | 195 pages | $22.00 US $29.99 CAN | £17.99 UK | Available
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