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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...

tongue in cheek—that an evangelical is simply someone who admires Billy Graham! All of this skepticism and infighting leaves hard-driving Calvinists such as Michael Horton and D. G. Hart complaining, in Horton’s words, that “quarrels over the evangelical trademark are probably a profound waste of time and precious energy,” or in Hart’s, that “evangelicalism needs to be relinquished as a religious identity because it does not exist.”10 Horton and Hart, like many other erstwhile evangelical leaders,
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