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Using a corpus of family letters, his FBI file, and a series of interviews, Frederick L. Downing portrays Clarence Jordan as a pioneer (on the frontier of the New South), a prophet, and a moral exemplar. The impact of Clarence Jordan on his culture was so strong that forty-five years after his death his legend as a "modern saint” lingers in American society.

Focuses on the faith pilgrimage of a holocaust survivor. This work argues that the author's religious faith is the driving force behind his status as a moral authority - that he is essentially a generative religious personality, a poet-prophet - who deepened his own particular Jewish vision to eventually become a 'link' with humanity.