Credo

by William Sloane Coffin

Overview

William Sloane Coffin challenged the nation with his passionate calls for social justice. In this best-seller, Coffin gives a powerful record of his remarkable public life, offering his inspiring words on issues ranging from charity and justice to politics and the meaning of faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664227074
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Sloane Coffin served as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, was senior minister of Riverside Church, and is President Emeritus of SANE/FREEZE: Campaign for Global Security. He became famous while at Yale in the 1960s for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was jailed as a civil rights Freedom Rider, indicted by the U.S. government in the Benjamin Spock conspiracy trial, and has been immortalized as Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. Both Union Theological Seminary in New York and Yale University have established scholarships in his honor.Included in his works are Credo and A Passion for the Possible, both available from WJK.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xv
	Faith, Hope, Love	1
	Social Justice and Civil Liberties	29
	Social Justice and Economic Rights	45
	Patriotism	75
	War and Peace	87
	Nature	107
	Life in General	115
	The Church	133
	The End of Life	161

What People are Saying About This

Marian Wright Edelman

Bill Coffin's eloquent and prophetic voice and indomitable spirit abound in this inspiring book. They will enrich and strengthen our lives and those of generations to come. What a gift Coffin's wisdom is to us all. (President, Children's Defense Fund )

Ellen Goodman

What a pleasure to have the good words and good works of Bill Coffin between these covers. Reading his Credo I knew I was in the company of a sane and compassionate fellow traveler through troubled times. (Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Boston Globe)

Editorial Reviews

The voice of a prophet and wisdom for the ages.

Bill Moyers

For more than 40 years, William Sloane Coffin has both enraptured and challenged the nation with his vibrant calls for peace and social justice. Even absent Coffin's extraordinary instrument -his peerless preacher's voice-the passionate music of his ministry soars from these pages.
— Creator of Doonesbury

Garry Trudeau