Evangelism category: 1424 books
Mississippi Praying
Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History
Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era...
The Age of Evangelicalism
America's Born-Again Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so powerful and pervasive that political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote of "a sense in which we are all...
Believers
A Journey into Evangelical America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A groundbreaking insider’s look at the lives and culture of American evangelicals
In Believers, award-winning religion journalist Jeffery L. Sheler offers a unique and intimate look at the evangelical Christian subculture—a faith tradition that some sixty million Americans call their...
by Joel Kilpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
They're Going to Heaven . . . and They Know It
At last, a complete, unsparing guide to evangelical Christians. This hilarious and highly useful manual, written by an insider, illuminates this rapidly growing and unique segment of America and offers a thoroughly entertaining, no-holds-barred,...
by Paul Freston
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism's long-established religious hegemony. At the same time, the region is among the most generally democratic outside the West, despite often being labeled as 'underdeveloped.' Scholars disagree whether Latin American...
The Anointed
evangelical truth in a secular age
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Why do so many evangelicals follow leaders with dubious credentials when they have other options in their own faith? Exploring intellectual authority within evangelicalism, the authors reveal how the concept of anointing—being chosen by God to speak for him—established a conservative evangelical leadership isolated from secular arts and sciences.
Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ
The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism...
by Brantley W. Gasaway
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In this compelling history of progressive evangelicalism, Brantley Gasaway examines a dynamic though often overlooked movement within American Christianity today. Gasaway focuses on left-leaning groups, such as Sojourners and Evangelicals for Social Action, that emerged in the early 1970s, prior to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
In recent years evangelical Christians have been increasingly turning their attention toward issues such as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. Such engagement marks both a return to historic evangelical social action and a pronounced...
The Reason for God
Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
A New York Times bestseller people can believe in—by "a pioneer of the new urban Christians" (Christianity Today) and the "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century" (Newsweek).
Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent...
Transforming Worldviews
An Anthropological Understanding of How People Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In the past, changes in behavior and in belief have been leading indicators for missionaries that Christian conversion had occurred. But these alone--or even together--are insufficient for a gospel understanding of conversion. For effective biblical mission, Paul G. Hiebert argues, we must add a third...
by FFM Fellowship of Faith for the Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Muslims are here! How shall we respond to them?Right at the beginning, let us confess one of the great failures of Christians. We have not usually shown much love toward Muslims. If we really love Muslims, we shall certainly want to share the wonderful Gospel of Jesus Christ with them.Muslims...
by Abdiyah Akbar Abdul-Haqq
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1980
This is the book for you if you are serious about communicating the truth of the Gospel to Muslims.It is thorough.It is authoritative.It is written by a third-world Christian whose father was a convert from Islam.It is the contention of the author that an effective evangelistic approach to the adherents...
The Doubts of Infidels
Queries Relative To Scriptural Inconsistencies and Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A stirring defence of Christianity against the questions and queries of non-believers, first published in 1819.