Jesse Mercer's Pulpit: Preaching in a Community of Faith and Learning

Platt, Wilfred C. Jr. and Douglas E. Thompson (eds)

ISBN 10: 0881460435 / ISBN 13: 9780881460438

Published by Mercer University Press, 2006

168pp. Very good plus, near perfect condition. Seller Inventory # 132753

Synopsis:

This book is a collection of sermons by Mercer University faculty and staff preached during University Worship between 2001 and 2005. The sermons engage the ways we encounter God in our daily lives. Using themes to arrange the sermons into one of four sections, each contributor attunes the reader to the presence of the Holy in our lives and the variety of vocations to which we are called. The volume includes an essay by Wilfred Platt on worship at Mercer from the founding of the institution to 2005. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Richard F.Wilson, Margaret Dee Bratcher, Jack L. Sammons, Marc A. Jolley, Bryan Whitfield, Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford, Kay Wilson Shurden, D. Gregory Sapp, John M. Dunaway, Paul Lewis, C. Jay Pendleton, Richard C. Fallis, Darlene Flaming, Janell Johnson, W.Loyd Allen, R. Scott Nash, Mary Alice Morgan, Frank J. Macke, Anya Silver, and John Claypool.

About the Author: WILFRED C. PLATT, JR. is a graduate of Furman University, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ohio University and the University of Georgia. From 1966 until 2000 he was a member of the department of historyof Mercer's College of Liberal Arts. He also served as associate dean of the College for sixteen years. As Professor of History, Emeritus, he has taught part-time and, from 2002 until 2005, directed the Honors Program for the College. He is currently associate editor of the Bulletin of Mercer's Center for Baptist Studies.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jesse Mercer's Pulpit: Preaching in a ...
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback