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- catalog abstract ""Although 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. Doughlas W. Frank examines the spiritual significance of these events by placing them against a biblical understand 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 a harmful misuse of the gospel." -- Book cover.".
- catalog alternative "How Evangelicals entered the twentieth century".
- catalog contributor b707693.
- catalog coverage "United States Church history 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Church history 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1986.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "c1986.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1986.".
- catalog description ""Although 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. Doughlas W. Frank examines the spiritual significance of these events by placing them against a biblical understand 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 a harmful misuse of the gospel." -- Book cover.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 299-304.".
- catalog description "Harder for a rich man -- I will die in my nest -- I am doing a work in your days -- Bear fruit that befits repentance -- They have healed my people lightly -- Put no confidence in the flesh.".
- catalog extent "x, 310 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Less than conquerors.".
- catalog identifier "0802802281 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Less than conquerors.".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "c1986.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans,".
- catalog relation "Less than conquerors.".
- catalog spatial "United States Church history 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Church history 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "BR1642.U5 F73 1986".
- catalog subject "Evangelicalism United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Evangelicalism United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Harder for a rich man -- I will die in my nest -- I am doing a work in your days -- Bear fruit that befits repentance -- They have healed my people lightly -- Put no confidence in the flesh.".
- catalog title "How Evangelicals entered the twentieth century".
- catalog title "Less than conquerors : how Evangelicals entered the twentieth century / Douglas Frank.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".