Colleges and Evangelicals Collide— Here is one more example of why it is getting increasingly difficult to be Christian at college. Our colleges and universities are open to all kinds of ideas, but increasingly, the important ideas are only those that do not conform to or fall in line with biblical Christianity. A Way Forward …
Revival and Revivalism:The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism by Iain Murray is a book about evangelicalism much more than simply revivals and revivalism. Though not at all what I would consier an objective approach to the subject, Murray aptly handles the period of 1750-1858 with its leaders, revivals, spiritual outpourings and problems. Murray is …
The Rise of Evangelicalism by Mark Noll chronicles the beginnings of evangelical Christianity during the first Great Awakening in the Eighteenth Century through the ministries of Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley, William Wilberforce, and others. Noll does a great job of objectively identifying both the spiritual issues that led to great outpourings …