{"title":"Charles Marsh","description":"Charles Marsh is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Project on Lived Theology. He is the author of seven previous books, including God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights, which won the 1998 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Of Marsh's earlier volumes Reclaiming Bonhoeffer,  the late Eberhand Bethge, Bonhoeffer's closest friend and first biographer, wrote: \"This book is a theological sensation--an exciting event. Nobody who attempts to define Bonhoeffer's legacy today will able to ignore Marsh's book.\"Marsh was a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 2009 and the 2010 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.","products":[{"product_id":"strange-glory-a-life-of-dietrich-bonhoeffer-paperback","title":"Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, \u003ci\u003e Christianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e 2015 Book Award in History\/Biography \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. With unprecedented archival access and definitive scope, Charles Marsh captures the life of this remarkable man who searched for the goodness in his religion against the backdrop of a steadily darkening Europe. From his brilliant student days in Berlin to his transformative sojourn in America, across Harlem to the Jim Crow South, and finally once again to Germany where he was called to a ministry for the downtrodden, we follow Bonhoeffer on his search for true fellowship and observe the development of his teachings on the shared life in Christ. We witness his growing convictions and theological beliefs, culminating in his vocal denunciation of Germany's treatment of the Jews that would put him on a crash course with Hitler. Bringing to life for the first time this complex human being--his substantial flaws, inner torment, the friendships and the faith that sustained and finally redeemed him--\u003ci\u003eStrange Glory\u003c\/i\u003e is a momentous achievement.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368250704095,"sku":"9780307390387","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/s2Rlb6p9WC9780307390387.webp?v=1789125110"},{"product_id":"gods-long-summer-stories-of-faith-and-civil-rights-paperback","title":"God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This was the summer when violence against blacks increased at an alarming rate and when the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi resulted in national media attention. Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed. He weaves their voices into a gripping narrative: a Ku Klux Klansman, for example, borrows fiery language from the Bible to link attacks on blacks to his \"priestly calling\"; a middle-aged woman describes how the Gospel inspired her to rally other African Americans to fight peacefully for their dignity; a SNCC worker tells of harrowing encounters with angry white mobs and his pilgrimage toward a new racial spirituality called Black Power. Through these emotionally charged stories, Marsh invites us to consider the civil rights movement anew, in terms of religion as a powerful yet protean force driving social action. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book's central figures are Fannie Lou Hamer, who \"worked for Jesus\" in civil rights activism; Sam Bowers, the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi; William Douglas Hudgins, an influential white Baptist pastor and unofficial theologian of the \"closed society\"; Ed King, a white Methodist minister and Mississippi native who campaigned to integrate Protestant congregations; and Cleveland Sellers, a SNCC staff member turned black militant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarsh focuses on the events and religious convictions that led each person into the political upheaval of 1964. He presents an unforgettable American social landscape, one that is by turns shameful and inspiring. In conclusion, Marsh suggests that it may be possible to sift among these narratives and lay the groundwork for a new thinking about racial reconciliation and the beloved community. He maintains that the person who embraces faith's life-affirming energies will leave behind a most powerful legacy of social activism and compassion.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368267546847,"sku":"9780691266350","price":24.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RGMEQnH8UB9780691266350.webp?v=1789125146"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/charles-marsh.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}