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The Rise of the Evangelicals: The birth of a movement that changed America (Christianity Today Essentials Book 10) Kindle Edition

by Douglas A. Sweeney (Author), Garth M. Rosell (Author), Bruce L. Shelley (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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The Evangelical movement has profoundly changed the American landscape. It is responsible in large measure for any growth Protestantism has enjoyed since the 1960s—for in the decades since, the mainline denominations have continued to wither while evangelical churches have held their own or blossomed. And this in a time when the nation has aggressively pushed for more secular laws (e.g. forbidding school prayer) and mores (in elite culture, evangelicals more than ever feel pressure to keep their religion to themselves). At the same time, evangelicals have become a part of the national political conversation in every election since the rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s.

In short, you cannot understand contemporary American life unless you understand evangelicals. And you cannot understand evangelicals until you know a bit of their history. This eBook is a very brief introduction to the recent history. Evangelicals have been a topic of scholarly fascination for some decades now, so dozens of excellent books have been written about them. In this book, you’ll get a faithful and brief (if not thorough) rendering of their beginning and development.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Prologue: The Pre-Evangelicals
Chapter 1: Harold John Ockenga: ‘America’s Hour Has Struck’ / Defining the Vision: Culturally Engaged Orthodoxy / Drawing the Line: Competing Theologies
Chapter 2: Youth for Christ: Winning Over a New Generation / Fueled by Prayer: A Story of Personal Transformation at YFC / Evangelical Entrepreneurs: YFC and the Parachurch Phenomenon
Chapter 3: Henrietta Mears: Rewriting Christian Education
Chapter 4: Billy Graham: The Early Crusades
Chapter 5: Awakening a Conscience for Social Justice
Chapter 6: Invigorating Christian Scholarship
Chapter 7: A Fraying Movement? Worries About Division
Epilogue: How History Shaped Contemporary Evangelicalism
Appendix 1: Timeline: America’s Evangelical Explosion
Appendix 2: The Top 50 Books that Have Shaped Evangelicals
Appendix 3: Recommended Resources
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009G6R4DU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Christianity Today (September 7, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 7, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 352 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 89 pages

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Jennifer Woodruff Tait is the editor of Christian History Magazine (https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/), the editor of The High Calling (https://www.theologyofwork.org/the-high-calling), a priest in the Episcopal Church, and an adjunct faculty member at Asbury Theological Seminary. She enjoys Asian food, reading, sewing, chocolate, and the world champion Chicago Cubs. She lives on an 8-acre farm in Richmond, KY with 10 chickens, 22 goats, 1 husband, 2 children, her inlaws, and a laptop.