Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves: The Minister in Southern Fiction

In this book, Lee Ramsey mines the riches of southern fiction and discovers a colorful assortment of ministers who arise out of the religious South. At once mystical and mischievous, these ministers haunt the margins of southern life while preaching a gospel that startles and compels. Throughout, Ramsey shows how ministers such as Roger Hagan in Will Campbell's The Convention and Hazel Motes in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood can help show us the stumbling blocks to faithful ministry and steer clergy and congregations forward in today's world.