James Wm. Mc Clendon, Jr. was the most important ‘baptist’ theologian of the twentieth century. Mc Clendon 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This two-volume set mixes previously unpublished and published lectures and essays with rare and little known works to form a representative collection of the essential themes of Mc Clendon’s work. The first volume focuses on the philosophical and theological shifts leading to Mc Clendon’s articulation of the baptist vision. The second volume specifically elucidates the more philosophical themes that informed Mc Clendon’s work, including ways in which these themes had immediate theological import. Taken together, the set provides the most comprehensive presentation of Mc Clendon’s work now available, revealing the sustained and systematic character of his vision over the course of his life. These two volumes will provide scholars, preachers, and students with Mc Clendon’s radical, narrative, and connective theology.
Table of Content
— Volume 1 —
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction to Volume 1
Part I: Prospect
§1 The Radical Road One Baptist Took (2000)
Part II: Early Baptist Reflections
§2 Creation, Humanity, Sin (1964)
§3 Atonement, Discipleship, and Freedom (1964)
§4 Death, Resurrection, Survival, and Immortality (1964)
§5 A Brief Narrative Account of My Professional Life and Work to the Present (1969)
§6 Some Reflections on the Future of Trinitarianism (1966)
§7 Baptism as a Performative Sign (1966)
Part III: Focusing the baptist Vision
§8 A Decade of Deeds and Dreams: My History Continued, 1969-1978 (1978)
§9 What Is a ‘baptist’ Theology? (1982)
§10 The Concept of Authority: A Baptist View (1988)
§11 Primitive, Present, Future: A Vision for the Church in the Modern World (1991)
§12 The Mennonite and Baptist Vision (1993)
§13 The Voluntary Church in the Twenty-First Century (1998)
Part IV: Social Ethics for Radical Christians
§14 Social Ethics for Radical Christians: Analysis and Program (1989)
§15 The End of the World (1989)
§16 The Church Seeking a Peaceable Culture: The Way of the Cross (1995)
§17 The Church Seeking a Peaceable Culture: The Way of the Resurrection (1995)
§18 Knowing the One Thing Needful (1995)
§19 The Politics of Forgiveness (1998)
Part V: Paths to Catholicity: The baptist Path
§20 What Is a Southern Baptist Ecumenism? (1968)
§21 Christian Identity in Ecumenical Perspective (with John Howard Yoder) (1990)
§22 Balthasar Hubmaier, Catholic Anabaptist (1991)
§23 Law and Faith (1994)
§24 A baptist Millennium? (1998)
Part VI: Retrospect
§25 Embodying the Great Story: An Interview with James Wm. Mc Clendon, Jr. (2000)
Permissions for Volume 1
Scripture Index for Volume I
General Index for Volume 1
About the author
James William Mc Clendon, Jr. was a Christian theologian in the Anabaptist tradition and the author of several important works, including Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today’s Theology and Making Gospel Sense to a Troubled Church. He was, at the time of his death, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
Ryan Andrew Newson is Adjunct Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Campbell University.
Andrew C.Wright is a Doctoral Candidate in Christian Ethics and Philosophical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and is Adjunct Professor in the Division of Religion and Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University.
Nancey Murphy is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary.
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