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Books > Biography > Religious & spiritual
Andrew A. Bonar's biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne, the young
yet pioneering Scottish minister who revolutionized Bible readings
at home and abroad, offers a meticulously detailed yet lively
telling of his life story. Born to a middle-class family in
Edinburgh in 1813, the young Robert demonstrated intellectual
ability at an early age. Upon attending the city's university, he
quickly became regarded as a remarkably gifted religious scholar.
His intuitive skills and theological knowledge exceeded all
expectations, and he became an assistant to John Bonar of the
famous Bonar family. Robert Murray M'Cheyne was appointed a
delegate of the Church of Scotland when it organized a visit to
Jerusalem and the Holy Land. By all accounts this journey was
spiritually fulfilling for the young minister, with the major
findings and progress of the voyage recorded in his work entitled
Narrative of a Visit to the Holy Land and Mission of Inquiry to the
Jews.
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Thomas A. Lambie
(Hardcover)
E. Paul Balisky; Foreword by Darrell L Whiteman
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For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was
at the center of controversy. The best known and most influential
of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the
Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far
rightist, a racist, or a "McCarthyite" opportunist engaged in
red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals,
revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became
a lightning rod in the early American culture wars. Markku
Ruotsila's Fighting Fundamentalist, the first scholarly biography
of McIntire, peels off the accumulated layers of caricature and
makes a case for restoring McIntire to his place as one of the most
consequential religious leaders in the twentieth-century United
States. The book traces McIntire's life from his early
twentieth-century childhood in Oklahoma to his death in 2002. From
his discipleship under J. Gresham Machen during the
fundamentalist-modernist controversy, through his fifty-year
pastorate in Collingswood, NJ, and his presidency of the
International Council of Christian Churches, McIntire-Ruotsila
shows-stands out as the most important fundamentalist of his time.
Based on exhaustive research in fifty-two archival
collections-including the recently opened collection of the Carl
McIntire papers and never-before seen FBI files-Ruotsila looks
beyond the McIntire of legend. Instead, Ruostila argues, McIntire
was a serious theological, political, and economic combatant, a
tireless organizer who pioneered the public theologies, inter-faith
alliances, and political methods that would give birth to the
Christian Right. The moral values agenda of the 1970s and after
would not have existed without the anti-communist and ant-New Deal
activism that McIntire inaugurated in the 1930s.
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She Laughs
(Hardcover)
Amanda Brown Coleman
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