{"product_id":"the-collected-sermons-of-jim-jones-9798233208133","title":"The Collected Sermons of Jim Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeff Hood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Theology School Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Theology School Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cults\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Collected Sermons of Jim Jones - Volume IV\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 1972 Sermons, Part Two, and Additional Sermons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume continues one of the most important documentary projects in the study of modern religious history: the preservation and critical presentation of the sermons of Jim Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathering the second set of 1972 sermons alongside additional recovered recordings, \u003cem\u003eVolume IV\u003c\/em\u003e offers a rare and unfiltered window into the evolving theology, psychology, and rhetorical power of the Peoples Temple leader. These sermons capture Jones at a pivotal moment-when his movement was expanding, his ideas were intensifying, and the foundations of what would become Jonestown were being laid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented with original Q-number archival references, these transcripts are reproduced as historical documents for scholarly, theological, and critical engagement. Readers will encounter Jones's complex synthesis of Pentecostalism, New Thought, socialism, and prophetic authority-alongside the manipulative structures and ideological shifts that would later culminate in tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor Jeff Hood provides a deeply reflective introduction that does not excuse or sensationalize, but instead wrestles with the enduring theological and moral questions raised by Jonestown: \u003cbr\u003eWhere is God in horror?\u003cbr\u003eHow does faith become coercion?\u003cbr\u003eAnd what does it mean to seek hope in the darkest corners of human history? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ea publication of New Theology School Press","brand":"New Theology School Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775870189719,"sku":"9798233208133","price":2180.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233208133.webp?v=1777992918","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-collected-sermons-of-jim-jones-9798233208133","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}