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Revive us again : the reawakening of American Fundamentalism
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Revive us again : the reawakening of American Fundamentalism

Author: Joel A Carpenter
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Skillfully blending painstaking research, telling anecdotes, and astute analysis, Carpenter - a scholar who has spent twenty years studying American evangelicalism reveals that, contrary to the popular opinion of the day, fundamentalism was alive and well in America in the late 1920s, and used its isolation over the next two decades to build new strength from within. The book describes how fundamentalists developed  Read more...
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Carpenter, Joel A.
Revive us again.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
(OCoLC)607870872
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joel A Carpenter
ISBN: 0195057902 9780195057904 0195129075 9780195129076
OCLC Number: 36656536
Description: xiv, 335 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A thriving popular movement --
The separatist impulse --
Separated from the world --
Separated unto the Gospel --
A window on the world --
Will revival come? --
Tuning in the Gospel --
An evangelical united front --
Youth for Christ --
World vision --
Can Fundamentalism win America? --
Revival in our time --
Appendix : Fundamentalists' views of prophecy and the end of time.
Responsibility: Joel A. Carpenter.
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At the end of the 1920s fundamentalism in the USA was intellectually bankrupt and publically disgraced, but in the 1940s it re-emerged as a thriving and influential public movement. The evolution of  Read more...

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<br>"Carpenter's book is one of the best we have on fundamentalism."--Books & Culture<p><br>"Indispensable.... Carpenter is comprehensive without ever becoming pedantic."--Christianity Today<p> Read more...

 
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