Publication

2004 - Smyth & Helwys Publishing

Language

English

Word Count

41,750 words, Guess

Page Count

167 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more

Classifications

  • LCCBS2577 .J65 2004

Description

Clarence Jordan translated most of the New Testament into the vernacular of the rural South, calling it The Cotton Patch Version. He died from a massive heart attack in 1969 before completing it. He lacked only Mark, John 9-21, and Revelation. His story is fascinating Clarence Jordan played a significant role in the founding of Habitat for Humanity. .Clarence Jordan was born in Talbotton, Georgia on July 12, 1912; Jordon received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from the University of Georgia in 1933. Being called by God to vocational ministry, he graduated from Southern Seminary with a doctoral degree in New Testament Greek. Clarence and his wife Florence returned to his native Georgia in 1842, along with some others. They bought some land in Sumpter Country, near Plains and Americus, and founded an interracial community known as Koinonia Farm, which was an e experiment in communal living in accord with Acts 2

Subjects

Places

towns in Georgia

People

written in the vernacular of the rural south

Other Editions

  • Clarence Jordan's Cotton Patch Gospel: Pauls Epistles (Cotton Patch Gospel)PaperbackSmyth & Helwys Publishing2004-01-01

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