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Charles Marsh


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Marsh is professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and director of the research community "Project on Lived Theology." He is the author of eight books, including "God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights," which won the 1998 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Strange Glory: A Life of Di...

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God's Long Summer

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Evangelical Anxiety: A Memoir

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The Beloved Community: How ...

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Welcoming Justice: God's Mo...

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The Last Days: A Son's Stor...

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Can I Get a Witness?: Thirt...

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Wayward Christian Soldiers:...

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Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoef...

3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions
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Resisting the Bonhoeffer Br...

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“Beyond the ephemeral and the dark stands “a sign from eternity, solemn and mighty, bathed in the radiance of the divine sun of grace and light—the cross. And there [God] hangs, his arms outstretched as if to embrace the entire world in love.”42”
Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“She said to Humphrey, “Do you mean to tell me that your position is more important to you than four hundred thousand black people’s lives?”126 For Mrs. Hamer, this was about the ascendancy of truth over politics; divine justice over liberal shrewdness. This was about “the beginning of a New Kingdom right here on earth,” about curing “America’s sickness”—and not with another remedy from the prevailing ethos of utility and power but with an injection of new vision and energy; not with a view toward political expediency”
Charles Marsh, God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights

“The thinking he brought to the task was simple at its heart, and yet severe in its demands. If a person calls himself a Christian, he must give up everything and follow Christ. In Mississippi in 1963 and 1964, “everything” meant, first and foremost, giving up the practices of white supremacy; but it also meant giving up class privilege, educational pretension, anything that kept one from opening up and going the whole way. The Christian life must be lived for others.”
Charles Marsh, God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights

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