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Bearing Witness - What the Church Can Learn from Early Abolitionists - cover

Bearing Witness - What the Church Can Learn from Early Abolitionists

Daniel Lee Hill

Publisher: Baker Academic

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Summary

In an era when the label "evangelical" is hotly contested and often entangled with political agendas, Daniel Lee Hill's Bearing Witness offers a timely reexamination of what it means to live out the gospel in public life. 
 
Drawing on the rich legacy of nineteenth-century abolitionists David Ruggles, Maria W. Stewart, and William Still, Hill constructs a compelling evangelical framework for public witness, anchored in Scripture and the practice of lament and burden-bearing. Hill challenges evangelicals to rediscover their roots in a tradition that speaks powerfully to contemporary debates over church, culture, and the call to social justice. 
 
Bearing Witness will be an indispensable guide for professors, students, pastors, and laypeople committed to a faith that speaks to the public square.
Available since: 04/22/2025.
Print length: 208 pages.

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