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The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott is unavailable, but you can change that!

Evangelical Christianity underwent extraordinary expansion—geographically, culturally and theologically—in the second half of the twentieth century. How and why did it spread and change so much? How did its strategic responses to a rapidly changing world affect its diffusion, for better or for worse? This volume in the History of Evangelicalism series offers an authoritative survey of worldwide...

the spectrum. The second reason, which in itself may have been an underlying cause of the first, was the impact of the early Graham crusades in England and Scotland, which gave ample opportunity for theological opponents to dismiss evangelicals as fundamentalists who had sacrificed intellectual integrity for the allure of tub-thumping American populism. Hence Graham, at the same time as he was being attacked by American fundamentalists for the expanding range of his Christian connections, was initially
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