2008 Speakers
CHARLES MARSH
Charles Marsh is professor of religious and theological studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. After publishing Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Promise of His Theology (1994), Marsh began considering the religious and moral paradoxes of his white southern Protestant upbringing. He was struck by the complex ways in which theological commitments and convictions came alive in the civil rights movement, which inspired him to write God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (1997), a book that received the 1998 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. His book The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today (2005) offers a fresh interpretation of the American search for authentic community in the decades since the beginning of the civil rights movement and includes a narrative of the rise and fall of the evangelical counter-culture. In 2000, he published his memoir The Last Days: A Son's Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of the New South. Marsh's most recent book is titled Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity (2007), which finds him engaged in the life and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Speaker Links
Read an article written by Marsh about American evangelicals.
The Roundtable interviews Marsh.
Read more about Marsh's latest book Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity.