The collected works of James Wm. McClendon, Jr
By: Ryan Andrew Newson, Andrew C. Wright, editors ; foreword by Nancey Murphy
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Waco
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781481300919; 9781481300957; 9781481304313
Subjects: Doctrines; Theology; Baptists; Christian ethics
Other titles: Collected works of James William McClendon, Jr
Work titles: Works
Description: "James Wm. McClendon, Jr. was the most important "baptist" theologian of the twentieth century. McClendon crafted a systematic theology that refused to succumb to the pressures of individualism, grew out of the immediacy of preaching the text, and lamented the stunted public witness of a fractured Protestant ecclesiology. This two-volume set brings together previously unpublished and published lectures and essays with rare and little known works to form the representative collection of the essential themes of McClendon's work. The first volume traces the theological path that led McClendon to his articulation of a distinctive baptist vision. The second volume specifically follows McClendon in his more philosophical themes that informed his work, including ways in which these themes had immediate theological import. Taken together, the set provides the most comprehensive presentation of McClendon's work now available, revealing the sustained and systematic character of his vision over the course of his life. These two volumes offer scholars, preachers, and students a greater understanding of McClendon's radical, narrative, and connective theology."-Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1.; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Foreword --; title: Introduction to Volume 1 -- -- Part I.; title: Prospect -- -- &#x00A7;1.; title: The Radical Road One Baptist Took (2000) -- -- Part II.; title: Early Baptist Reflections -- -- &#x00A7;2.; title: Creation, Humanity, Sin (1964) -- -- &#x00A7;3.; title: Atonement, Discipleship, and Freedom (1964) -- -- &#x00A7;4.; title: Death, Resurrection, Survival, and Immortality (1964) -- -- &#x00A7;5.; title: A Brief Narrative Account of My Professional Life and Work to the Present (1969) -- -- &#x00A7;6.; title: Some Reflections on the Future of Trinitarianism (1966) -- -- &#x00A7;7.; title: Baptism as a Performative Sign (1966) -- -- Part III.; title: Focusing the baptist Vision -- -- &#x00A7;8.; title: A Decade of Deeds and Dreams: My History Continued, 1969-1978(1978) -- -- &#x00A7;9.; title: What Is a 'baptist' Theology? (1982) -- -- &#x00A7;10.; title: The Concept of Authority. A Baptist View (1988) -- -- &#x00A7;11.; title: Primitive, Present, Future: A Vision for the Church in the Modern World (1991) -- -- &#x00A7;12.; title: The Mennonite and Baptist Vision (1993) -- -- &#x00A7;13.; title: The Voluntary Church in the Twenty-First Century (1998) -- -- Part IV.; title: Social Ethics for Radical Christians -- -- &#x00A7;14.; title: Social Ethics for Radical Christians: Analysis and Program (1989) -- -- &#x00A7;15.; title: The End of the World (1989) -- -- &#x00A7;16.; title: The Church Seeking a Peaceable Culture: The Way of the Cross (1995) -- -- &#x00A7;17.; title: The Church Seeking a Peaceable Culture: The Way of the Resurrection (1995) -- -- &#x00A7;18.; title: Knowing the One Thing Needful (1995) -- -- &#x00A7;19.; title: The Politics of Forgiveness (1998) -- -- Part V.; title: Paths to Catholicity: The baptist Path -- -- &#x00A7;20.; title: What Is a Southern Baptist Ecumenism? (1968) -- -- &#x00A7;21.; title: Christian Identity in Ecumenical Perspective (with John Howard Yoder) (1990) -- -- &#x00A7;22.; title: Balthasar Hubmaier, Catholic Anabaptist (1991) -- -- &#x00A7;23.; title: Law and Faith (1994) -- -- &#x00A7;24.; title: A baptist Millennium? (1998) -- -- Part VI.; title: Retrospect -- -- &#x00A7;25.; title: Embodying the Great Story: An Interview with James Wm. McClendon, Jr. (2000) --; title: Permissions for Volume 1 --; title: Scripture Index for Volume 1 --; title: General Index for Volume 1 --; title: Volume --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Foreword --; title: Introduction to Volume 2 -- -- Part I.; title: Retrospect -- -- &#x00A7;26.; title: Three Strands of Christian Ethics (1978) -- -- &#x00A7;27.; title: Distinguishing Modern and Postmodern Theologies (1989) -- -- Part II.; title: Language, Convictions, and Speech-Acts -- -- &#x00A7;28.; title: Christian Philosophers or Philosopher Christians? (1968) -- -- &#x00A7;29.; title: How Is Religious Talk Justifiable? (1968) -- -- &#x00A7;30.; title: Can There Be Talk about God-and-the-World? (1969) -- -- &#x00A7;31.; title: Saturday's Child: A New Approach to the Philosophy of Religion (with James Marvin Smith) (1970) -- -- &#x00A7;32.; title: Homo Loquens: Theology as Grammar (1971) -- -- &#x00A7;33.; title: 'Convictions' after 'Twenty Years (1995) -- -- Part III.; title: Convictions Made Flesh Speech-Acts as Embodied Narrative -- -- &#x00A7;34.; title: Biography as Theology (1971) -- -- &#x00A7;35.; title: Theology, Language, and Life: A Christian Perspective (1974) -- -- &#x00A7;36.; title: The God of the Theologians and the God of Jesus Christ (1981) -- -- &#x00A7;37.; title: Story, Sainthood, and Truth: Biography as Theology Revisited (1982) -- -- &#x00A7;38.; title: Narrative Ethics and Christian Ethics (1986) -- -- Part IV.; title: On the Significance of Practices -- -- &#x00A7;39.; title: Christian Practices and the Postmodern Philosophical Task (1991) -- -- &#x00A7;40.; title: Toward a Conversionist Spirituality (1994) -- -- &#x00A7;41.; title: A New Way to Read the Bible (1995) -- -- &#x00A7;42.; title: A Practical Theory of Religion (1995) -- -- Part V.; title: Embodying (he Great Story in the World -- -- &#x00A7;43.; title: Do We Need Saints Today? (1986) -- -- &#x00A7;44.; title: Toward an Ethics of Delight (1988) -- -- &#x00A7;45.; title: Ethics for a Career (1988) -- -- &#x00A7;46.; title: How Can a Christian Be a Law Librarian? (1990) -- -- &#x00A7;47.; title: How Ts Christian Morality Universalizable? (1991) -- -- &#x00A7;48.; title: Picture Eschatology (1995) -- -- &#x00A7;49.; title: Taking the Side of the World (2000) -- -- Part VI.; title: Prospect -- -- &#x00A7;50.; title: Ten Theses on the Task of Today's Theology (1989) --; title: Permissions for Volume 2 --; title: Scripture Index for Volume 2 --; title: General Index for Volume 2.; title: Volume 3.; title: Introduction to volume 3 -- -- Part I.; title: Waiting: the coming of the Lord. -- &#x00A7;1.; title: "What's coming next? : an Advent sermon" : Isaiah 64:1-9; Mark 13:24-37 -- -- &#x00A7;2.; title: "The coming revolution" : Isaiah 9:2-7 -- -- &#x00A7;3.; title: "What if time stopped? : another Advent sermon" : Malachi 4 -- -- &#x00A7;4.; title: "Christ present" : John 1:13-18 -- -- Part II.; title: On the way: the path of discipleship. -- &#x00A7;5.; title: "Has God made a mistake about the future?" (Ash Wednesday) : Isaiah 2:4f -- -- &#x00A7;6.; title: "To gather together the scattered children of God" (Ash Wednesday) : John 11:47-53 -- -- &#x00A7;7.; title: "Polycarp, biography, and theology" (Feast Day of Polycarp) : Matthew 20:20-28; Revelation 2:8-11 -- -- &#x00A7;8.; title: "Born again?" : John 3:4 -- -- &#x00A7;9.; title: "When Jesus fails, what then?" : Matthew 10:23 -- -- &#x00A7;10.; title: Knowing the one thing needful" : Luke 10:38-42 -- -- &#x00A7;11.; title: "Why Jesus wept" : Luke 13:31-35 -- -- &#x00A7;12.; title: "The things that are Caesar's" : Mark 12:17a -- -- &#x00A7;13.; title: "Gospel to the lonely" : Mark 14:3-9 -- -- &#x00A7;14.; title: "With basin and towel" : Jeremiah 3:12f.; John 13:1-9 -- -- &#x00A7;15.; title: The thirteenth cross" : Mark 8:34-38 -- -- &#x00A7;16.; title: "For whom did he die?" : Jeremiah 31:31-37; John 12:20-33 -- -- &#x00A7;17.; title: "Judas: the passion of leadership" : Matthew 26:14; Romans 8:32; Luke 1:1f. -- -- Part III.; title: A whole new world. -- &#x00A7;18.; title: "The death of death on Easter day" : John 20:11a -- -- &#x00A7;19.; title: "The return of the gardener" : John 20:15 -- -- &#x00A7;20.; title: "I have my doubts" : John 20:19-33 -- -- &#x00A7;21.; title: "What really happened at Easter?" : Luke 24:13-35 -- -- &#x00A7;22.; title: "Earth matters: an Easter sermon" : John 21:9-14; Genesis 1:24-31 -- -- &#x00A7;23.; title: "Bloodlust and the gospel" : Luke 24:44f. -- -- Part IV.; title: The time of the spirit-filled community. -- &#x00A7;24.; title: "Tell Jesus good-bye" : Acts 1:6-11 -- -- &#x00A7;25.; title: "James and justice" (Feast Day of St. James) : James 2:1-17 -- -- &#x00A7;26.; title: "The end of the world" : Luke 17:20-25 -- -- &#x00A7;27.; title: "What makes the Bible [come] true?" : Luke 4:14-21; Nehemiah 8:1-8 -- -- &#x00A7;28.; title: "Why have a church?" : John 20:21-23 -- -- &#x00A7;29.; title: "Eyes of faith" : Hebrews 12:18-25 -- -- &#x00A7;30.; title: "Conversions" (Feast of the Conversion of the Apostel Paul) : Galatians 1:16 -- -- &#x00A7;31.; title: "How to live with a God who won't stay put" : Job 31:29-40; John 4:19-26 -- -- &#x00A7;32.; title: "Rendezvous on a strange planet" : Exodus 10:21-26; John 8:12-19 -- -- &#x00A7;33.; title: "The generation struggle" : Deuteronomy 5:16, 6:20-25 -- -- &#x00A7;34.; title: "The good old days" : Judges 6:13 -- -- &#x00A7;35.; title: "The half-Christians" : Daniel 2; Acts 25:13-26:32 -- -- &#x00A7;36.; title: "Isaiah's gospel: good news for tough times" : Isaiah 43:16-21 -- -- &#x00A7;37.; title: "Starting over" : Amos 1:1f., 3:3-6 -- -- &#x00A7;38.; title: "What is this ministry? an ordination sermon" : John 21:18 -- -- &#x00A7;39.; title: "Is it peace?" : Jeremiah 6:11-15 -- -- &#x00A7;40.; title: "Rediscovering heaven" (All Saints' Day) : Revelation 7:9-12 -- -- &#x00A7;41.; title: "Apocalypse: a Christian view of history" : Psalm 79; Revelation 6:1-11 -- -- &#x00A7;42.; title: "The inner secret of membership" : Romans 5:17-6:23 -- -- &#x00A7;43.; title: "The creative witness of the cross" : John 12:24 -- -- Part V.; title: Appendices. -- &#x00A7;44.; title: "Confession of faith: U.S.A., 1972" -- -- &#x00A7;45.; title: "Prophetic preaching as witness" -- -- &#x00A7;46.; title: "How to preach the gospel" : Psalm 119:99.