Clarence Jordan's Cotton Patch Gospel

About this book

Clarence Jordan translated most of the New Testament into the vernacular of the rural South, calling it The Cotton Patch Version. He died from a massive heart attack in 1969 before completing it. He lacked only Mark, John 9-21, and Revelation. His story is fascinating Clarence Jordan played a significant role in the founding of Habitat for Humanity. .Clarence Jordan was born in Talbotton, Georgia on July 12, 1912; Jordon received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from the University of Georgia in 1933. Being called by God to vocational ministry, he graduated from Southern Seminary with a doctoral degree in New Testament Greek. Clarence and his wife Florence returned to his native Georgia in 1842, along with some others. They bought some land in Sumpter Country, near Plains and Americus, and founded an interracial community known as Koinonia Farm, which was an e experiment in communal living in accord with Acts 2