Cotton Patch Evidence

By Dallas Lee

Book Overview

The stoey of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia Farm Experiment (1942 - 1970) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060652195
• ISBN13: 9780060652197
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Harpercollins Publisher
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Acts of the Apostles, cont'd.

Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farm, a Christian community in rural Georgia (and precursor to Habitat for Humanity) and author of the Cotton Patch version of the New Testament, said that the book of Acts "merely stops, as though the author is saying, 'Here's where I get off; y'all take it from here.'" Jordan, as other Christian communitarians have done over the centuries, adapted the model of the earliest description of the Church, the "Koinonia," where believers held goods in common, in his case to a South Georgia farm setting in the mid 20th century. Dallas Lee's tale of the history of "the Koinonia Farm Experiment" gets its title from Jordan's observation that evidence of the resurrection was not so much in the empty tomb as in the transformed lives of the believers. It is a powerful story of faith in action. Lee beautifully yet simply captures the drama of people who, in many instances, put their lives on the line to bear witness to new the lives they believed in and the values of the One in whose name they gathered. Anyone who wants to know what being a Christian means today, in city, suburb or farm, should read this book.