The collected works of James Wm. McClendon, Jr

"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 This two-volume set brings together previously unpublished and published lectures and essays with rare and little known works to form the representative collection of the essential themes of McClendon's work.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.