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Charles G.Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism
Av Charles E.Hambrick- Stowe, George Weigel
Häftad, 1996
293 kr
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Charles Grandison Finney was the foremost evangelist in the pre-Civil War United States. His revivals in the cities along the Erie Canal; his well-organized campaigns in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and the British Isles; his prominent pastorate at New York's British Isles; his prominent …
Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America
Av Lyle W. Dorsett, Nathan O. Hatch
Häftad, 1991
240 kr
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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. The greatest of the tent and tabernacle revivalists, preaching to over 100 million people from 1908 to 1920, Billy Sunday stands as one of the most significant mass evangelists of the twentieth century. In his full-length biography of …
William Ewart Gladstone
Faith and Politics in Victorian Britain
Häftad, 1993
368 kr
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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Perhaps the most eminent of eminent Victorians, a master alike of parliamentary debate and public oratory, and regarded as the greatest Christian statesman of his day, William Ewart Gladstone (1809- 1898) governed Britain at a time …
Divine Dramatist
George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism
Av Harry S. Stout, Nathan O. Hatch
Häftad, 1959
335 kr
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Commonly acknowledged as Anglo-America's most popular eighteenth-century preacher, George Whitefield commanded mass audiences across two continents through his personal charisma. Harry Stout draws on a number of sources, including the newspapers of Whitefield's day, to outline his subject's …
Aimee Semple McPherson
Everybody's Sister
Häftad, 1959
367 kr
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One of the most influential and dynamic evangelists of the twentieth century, Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) was a complex, controversial figure with a flair for the dramatic. Against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties, Sister Aimee, as she was widely known, cultivated her ministry, preaching …
Sworn on the Altar of God
A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson
Häftad, 1996
250 kr
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This acclaimed biography explores the religious life of Thomas Jefferson and the contribution his strident commitment to religious liberty made to the formation of the nation. Renowned historian Edwin Gaustad chronicles Jefferson's intellectual growth, paying particular attention both to …
Blaise Pascal
Reasons of the Heart
Av Marvin R. O'Connell, Mark A. Noll m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
232 kr
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Thomas Merton
The Monastic Vision
Häftad, 1999
219 kr
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Though the outlines of Thomas Merton's life are generally known to his many readers, the details of his spiritual development are less familiar. Taking up where Merton's own Seven Storey Mountain ends, this penetrating biography by Lawrence Cunningham explores Merton's monastic life and his …
Puritan as Yankee
A Life of Horace Bushnell
Av Mullin
Häftad, 2002
310 kr
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Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) is one of the most studied figures in nineteenth- century American religious history, but there have been no recent major biographies of him. Robert Bruce Mullin's Puritan as Yankee provides a much-needed look at this famous American Christian thinker. Based on a close …
Her Heart Can See
The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby
Häftad, 2005
344 kr
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Her Heart Can See offers an intimate, informed look at Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915), the most prolific of all American hymn writers. Having lost her sight in infancy through a doctor's negligence, Fanny went on to compose more than 9,000 hymns, as well as various other songs, cantatas, and lyrical …
Orestes A. Brownson
American Religious Weathervane
Av CAREY
Häftad, 2004
335 kr
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Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803- 1876) was a philosopher, essayist, and minister whose broad-ranging ideas both reflected and influenced the social and religious mores of his day. This superb biography by Patrick Carey provides a thorough, incisive account of Brownson's shifting intellectual and …
First American Evangelical
A Short Life of Cotton Mather
Av Rick Kennedy
Häftad, 2015
198 kr
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An accurate, sympathetic account of influential colonial Christian leader Cotton Mather Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new …
Emblem of Faith Untouched
A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer
Häftad, 2016
221 kr
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Relates one of the most remarkable lives in the tumultuous English Reformation Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the English Protestant Reformation. Few theologians have led such an eventful …
Religious Life of Robert E. Lee
Av R. David Cox
Häftad, 2017
288 kr
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The first close examination of how Robert E. Lee's faith shaped his life Robert E. Lee was many things—accomplished soldier, military engineer, college president, family man, agent of reconciliation, polarizing figure. He was also a person of deep Christian conviction. In this biography of the …
George Whitefield
Evangelist for God and Empire
Häftad, 2018
277 kr
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Narrates the drama of a famous preacher’s entire career in his historical context GEORGE WHITEFIELD (1714–1770) is remembered as a spirited revivalist, a catalyst for the Great Awakening, and a founder of the evangelical movement in America. But Whitefield was also a citizen of the British Empire …
Damning Words
The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken
Av D G Hart
Häftad, 2016
266 kr
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Recounts a famously outspoken agnostic's surprising relationship with Christianity H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author—and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally …
God's Cold Warrior
The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles
Häftad, 2021
379 kr
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When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1945. President Eisenhower called Dulles—his longtime secretary of state—“one of the truly great men of our time,” and a few years later the new commercial airport outside …
Prairie Faith
The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Av John J Fry
Häftad, 2024
227 kr
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Religious Journey of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Duty, God, and Country
Av Jack M Holl
Häftad, 2024
344 kr
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“Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is. With us, of course, it is the Judeo-Christian concept, but it must be a religion that all men are created equal.” So said Dwight D. Eisenhower shortly after being elected …
One Soul at a Time
The Story of Billy Graham
Av Grant Wacker
Häftad, 2024
187 kr
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Christianity Today 2020 Book Award of Merit in History/Biography For more than five decades Billy Graham (1918-2018) ranked as one of the most influential voices in the Christian world. Nearly 215 million people around the world heard him preach in person or through live electronic media, almost …
Christian and a Democrat
A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Av John F Woolverton, James D Bratt
Häftad, 2019
277 kr
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, "I am a Christian and a Democrat." This is the story of how the first informed the second--how his upbringing in the Episcopal Church and matriculation at the Groton School …
The Religious Journey of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Duty, God, and Country
Av Jack M Holl
Inbunden, 2021
277 kr
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