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For generations of Georgia Baptists, Howard P. Giddens is a beloved and respected pastor, teacher, and denominational leader. With sermons that inspire, teach, and convict, Why Be a Christian? will serve as a valuable resource to students and practitioners of preaching.

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Reinhold Niebuhr's analysis of the human condition inevitably led him into a dialogue with psychology. This book brings Niebuhr into dialogue with Freud, Horney, Rogers, Kohut, Jung, and other key psychological thinkers. It argues that Niebuhr was both an astute critic of some forms of psychology, and a great contributor to the human sciences.

Published in cooperation with the American Baptist Historical Society.

The book of "Acts" contains the only biblical narrative of the events that occurred in the early church between the early first-century ministry of Jesus and the early to mid-second-century emergence of the Christian apologists. This title includes essays that reveal the best in contemporary thought about this one-of-a-kind book.

A collection of poems that are intertwined with the natural world of the poet's Georgia country home.

Civil War survivor Witfield Stone totters on the brink of insanity. Entrusted with transporting contract laborers from Africa to Brazil where his father and members of the Southern Land and Immigration Society plan to reconstruct their lost fortunes, Witfield takes special interest in the fate of eleven-year-old Fatima.

Explores Appalachian foodways. This book features a geographical area that extends from the land of pepperoni rolls, created by Italian bakeries for coal miners in northern West Virginia, to downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the Zarzour family, originally from the Middle East, has operated a Southern butter-bean-turnip-green diner since 1918.

In 1916, Eugene W Stetson, a thirty-five year old banker from Macon, Georgia, became a vice-president with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a 'Morgan Bank'. Focusing on Stetson's career, this study offers a personalized portrait of the strategies and relationships that determined who received capital in twentieth-century America.

A reader on American politics for Americans. It points to the stories of a handful of Americans - some famous, some not - to illustrate the defining characteristics of the system of government. It gives the reader some notion of why the American political system, has served its citizens so well for more than 230 years.

Maynard Adams (1919-2003) was a profound philosopher and civic humanist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A major intellectual figure of the second half of the twentieth century, Adams developed a comprehensive philosophy of civilization that applies to all humanity but has a distinctly Southern dimension.

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The first carefully graded introductory textbook of Sahidic Coptic to appear in English: no other grammar is designed specifically as a textbook, with lessons and drill exercises. Included are a series of graded lessons with exercises covering grammar and vocabulary, a selection of annotated texts, and a comprehensive glossary of Sahidic Coptic.

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If anyone can be said to have lived his life as a legend, it was Berry Benson. As a lad growing up in Hamburg, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia, he loved the nearby ponds and woods, and read stories of adventure. Part poet, part warrior, he viewed the Civil War as the supreme adventure. His exploits became the stuff of legend.

Includes historical essays dealing with the role of the pulpit in the fight for American independence, the involvement of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in fashioning the First Amendment, and the contribution of many Baptists to our understanding of the proper relationship between church and state.

Offers a look at how Baptists have formed and sustained scholarly life in America. This title is based on a group of Baptist scholars interested in critically examining the history, challenges, and possibilities of a scholarly life in the Baptist Academy.