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The Sound of Gravel is Ruth Wariner's unforgettable and deeply
moving story of growing up in a polygamist Mormon doomsday
community. The thirty-ninth of her father's forty-one children,
Ruth is raised on a farm in the hills of Mexico, where polygamy is
practiced without fear of legal persecution. There, Ruth's family
lives in a home without indoor plumbing or electricity and attends
a church where preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by
destroying the world. In need of government assistance and
supplemental income, Ruth and her siblings are carted back and
forth between Mexico and the United States, where her mother
collects welfare and her father works a variety of odd jobs. Ruth
comes to love the time she spends in the States, realising that
perhaps the belief system into which she was born is not the one
for her. As she enters her teen years, she becomes a victim of
abuse in a community in which opposition toward men is tantamount
to arguing with God. Finally, and only after devastating tragedy,
Ruth finds an opportunity to escape. Recounted from the innocent
and hopeful perspective of a child, The Sound of Gravel is the
remarkable true story of a girl forced to define a place for
herself within a community of misguided believers. This is a
gripping tale of triumph, courage, resilience, and love.
Inward Baptism analyses the theological developments that led to
the great evangelical revivals of the mid-eighteenth century. Baird
Tipson here demonstrates how the rationale for the "new birth," the
characteristic and indispensable evangelical experience, developed
slowly but inevitably from Luther's critique of late medieval
Christianity. Addressing the great indulgence campaigns of the late
fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Luther's perspective on
sacramental baptism, as well as the confrontation between Lutheran
and Reformed theologians who fastened on to different aspects of
Luther's teaching, Tipson sheds light on how these disparate
historical moments collectively created space for evangelicalism.
This leads to an exploration of the theology of the leaders of the
Evangelical awakening in the British Isles, George Whitefield and
John Wesley, who insisted that by preaching the immediate
revelation of the Holy Spirit during the "new birth," they were
recovering an essential element of primitive Christianity that had
been forgotten over the centuries. Ultimately, Inward Baptism
examines how these shifts in religious thought made possible a
commitment to an inward baptism and consequently, the evangelical
experience.
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