A Pilgrimage of Faith: My StoryMercer University Press, 2004 - 291 páginas Henlee Barnette's life has spanned most of the twentieth century. His life in the rural South eventually led to his becoming a Christian. He graduated from Wake Forest College in 1940, and then attended seminary, taking the Ph.D. in 1948. For the next 50 years he taught Christian ethics, but not just in the classroom. In this remarkable memoir, he stresses Christianity as a pilgrimage, a way of life undergirded by faith in God. Such faith is active in love and calls for justice in personal and social relations. One's journey in the world needs a spiritual compass: the Christian's personal responsibility to do faith active in love, that is, agape love. Such love includes justice. Love without justice is subjective and sentimental. Love that Jesus taught provides concreteness and structure. Agape love makes justice just. Christian faith that is purely personal is suspect. In his own pilgrimage he became aware of the demonic forces that dehumanize us. Among these was the denial of basic human rights to minority groups. Love and justice motivated him to join the Civil Rights Movement as a means of achieving more just interpersonal relations. His relationships with blacks and whites during the Civil Rights Movement fill the pages of this wonderful narrative. But Barnette also fought against unjust wars, ecological abuse, poverty, violence, and a multitude of other issues which confront and challenge both Christian and church. |
Índice
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The Magnetic Mills | 20 |
Conversion and Call | 27 |
Wake Forest College | 34 |
The Beeches | 44 |
The Haymarket | 54 |
Alabama Bound | 63 |
The Sunshine State | 70 |
Debate on Morality | 156 |
Ecology | 161 |
Politics | 166 |
Vietnam | 173 |
War Amnesty Peace and Patriotism | 190 |
International Relations | 204 |
Connecting | 213 |
Innovations | 220 |
Back to The Beeches | 75 |
Road to Renewal | 89 |
Conference with Khrushchev | 95 |
Crisis at the School of the Prophets | 101 |
Harvard Highlights | 107 |
Race Relations | 117 |
A Day in the Life of a King | 128 |
Protest Action | 136 |
Heresy Hunters | 145 |
First RetirementA Retreading | 227 |
The Medical School | 235 |
The Healing Power of Humor | 243 |
The Best is Yet to Be | 248 |
Selected Reference Sources | 255 |
Relations with the Russians | 257 |
Race Matters | 269 |
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Alexander County American amnesty asked Baptist Church Baptist Theological Seminary became Bible called campus chairman chapel Charlotte Christ Christian Ethics Clarence Jordan committee communist conference course Dean declared faith Florida fundamentalists graduate Helen Henlee Barnette humor invited Jesus John Kannapolis KCLC Kentucky Kerley Khrushchev later lectures letter lived Louisville Louisville's Martin Luther King McCall meeting mill ministry moral nation never North Carolina participation pastor Paul Simmons peace person Poarch political preach president Professor prophet protest question race relations racial religion religious Sampey seminary's sermon served Simmons Situation Ethics social Southern Baptist Convention Southern Baptist Theological Southern Seminary Soviet Union Stetson Sunday Taylorsville teaching Testament things told trustees Union Gospel Mission University University of Louisville Vietnam Wake Forest College Wayne Wayne Oates wrote