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Confronted by God: The Essential Verna Dozier

Confronted by God


The Essential Verna Dozier

Cynthia L. Shattuck and Fredrica Harris Thompsett, Editors

List Price: $16.00

PAPERBACK , 160 pp , 5 1/4 x 8 1/4

  • Seabury Books
  • May/2006
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-59627-023-7
  • 0233

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This unique collection of writings by Verna Dozier, eloquent prophet and teacher of the Bible, features selections from all her available work, including The Authority of the Laity, Equipping the Saints, her unfinished manuscript on the Bible, sermons, and interviews. Many of these materials, designed to give the unique flavor of Verna Dozier's wit and wisdom, have never appeared before in print.

Beginning with a short biography of Verna's life in order to place the writings in context, the book consists of six chapters organized both autobiographically and thematically. Beginning chapters cover her early life and family--her parents and sister, growing up African-American and Baptist in the segregated city of Washington DC, the influence of Howard Thurman and other theologians at Howard University, and her dual career, shaped by one set of values, teaching English literature and teaching the Bible. Subsequent chapters cover her approach and method of studying Scripture, teaching on Bible stories, her challenge to the church, and questions of ambiguity, morality, and faith.

Verna Dozier has single-handedly revived the study of the Bible and renewed the church's understanding of the ministry of all believers. She is known all over the country and overseas for her Bible teaching, conferences, preaching, and work with lay groups in the church to strengthen their callings and ministries.

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