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Dr. Jonathan L. Walton serves as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University and Pusey Minister in Harvard’s Memorial Church.

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	Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic by Reinhold Niebuhr, Jonathan L. Walton (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.18 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1957 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in Its World for Our World 4.04 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watch This!: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression by Anthony B. Pinn (Editor), Benjamin Valentin (Editor), Mayra Rivera (Contributor) 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity by Cornel West, Jonathan L. Walton (Goodreads Author), Kellye A. Saunders (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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