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TURNING POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM, edited by Heath W. Carter and Laura Rominger Porter

A “Bonus” Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance Overview of the Book Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism consists of a collection of twelve essays by prominent historians, spotlighting the major “turning points” that shaped the development of evangelicalism in the United States. Rather than offering a strict definition of…

CULTURAL COUNTERFEITS: CONFRONTING FIVE EMPTY PROMISES OF OUR AGE AND HOW WE WERE MADE FOR SO MUCH MORE, by Jen Oshman

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Kirsten Birkett About the Author Jen Oshman is an author, missionary, pastor’s wife, blogger, and podcaster. She served as a missionary with Cadence International in Okinawa, Japan, and with Pioneers International as a church planter in the Czech Republic. Contents Introduction Part 1:…

THE DOMINANCE OF EVANGELICALISM: THE AGE OF SPURGEON AND MOODY, by David W. Bebbington

A “Bonus” Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance Overview and Thesis Bebbington, expanding his influential History of Evangelicalism series, profiles the mid- to late-19th-century era—spanning roughly 1850 to 1900—as a period when evangelicalism became a dominant religious and cultural force across the English-speaking world: including Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa,…

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