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The American Evangelical Story surveys the role American evangelicalism has had in the shaping of global evangelical history. Author Douglas Sweeney begins with a brief outline of the key features that define evangelicals and then explores the roots of the movement in English Pietism and the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. He goes on to consider the importance of missions in the...

Indeed, fundamentalists and their neoevangelical progeny have stood steadfastly at the vanguard of the battle for the truth—the literal truth—of their beloved, everlasting gospel message. In the words of a popular hymn written in 1886 (by a disciple of D. L. Moody healed from heart disease by faith), “the promises of God” were not to be trifled with or qualified in the face of modern criticism. Christians were to trust in them, come hell or high water. They were to triumph, furthermore, by means
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