how Evangelicals entered the twentieth century Frank, Douglas Additional Author mixed material bibliography Michigan W.B. Eerdmans c1986 monographic en English

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x, 310 p. ; 23 cm. A Ithough evangelicals enjoyed respect and leadership in American society in the decades before the Civil War, their fortunes declined precipitately in the wake of the industrialism, modernism, and secularism of the next half-century. By the 1920s evangelicals felt like an embattled minority within a largely unbelieving culture, and perceived that history was very much out of their control. Douglas W. Frank examines the spiritual significance of these events by placing them against a biblical understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ. He sees in the confidence and self-congratulation of the turn-of-the-century evangelicals a portrait of the spiritually rich of the Bible who must lose their riches before they can come to know God truly. Frank discusses in detail three of the most popular responses of American evangelicals to their loss of power: dispensational premillenialism, the "victorious life" theology, and the popular revivalism of Billy Sunday. Each of these, he believes, betrayed harmful misuse of the gospel. Less than Conquerors is a call to replace the blurred and self-serving gospel of a besieged subculture with the genuine gospel of Jesus Christ. 20th century 19th century 269.209730802802281(pbk.): Perpustakaan STTB Bandung Theological Seminary 269.20973 Fra l-2 E10002338 Non Fiction 269.20973 Fra l-2 less.jpg 16992 1986-10-16 00:00:00 2026-04-21 18:03:42 machine generated