50 Books That Have Shaped Evangelicals
Christianity Today (CT) has published their top 50 list.
Landmark titles that changed the way we think, talk, witness, worship, and live.
These are books that have shaped evangelicalism as we see it todayÂnot an evangelicalism we wish and hope for. . . Books that over the last 50 years have altered the way American evangelicals pray, gather, talk, and reach outÂnot books that merely entertained.
I won't present all 50 at once. Instead, let's talk about them in groups of two-three. Let's discuss. Interact. Learn from each other. I will include the description of each book as written by CT. If you'd add osubtractct from the description, share that too.
Next Saturday, I'll post the next ones on the list. Unless we want to discuss 1 (or more) longer.
So let's start with . . .
50. Revivalism and Social Reform by Timothy L. Smith.
The new evangelicals were rightly wary of the liberal "social gospel." Yet they knew Jesus called them to serve the oppressed. Historian Timothy L. Smith destroyed the myth of the "heavenly minded" evangelical and helped us remember our history of personal and social holiness.
49.Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor and mystic invited us behind the curtain and into God's presence.
48.The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill.
The staple conundrum of late-night ethics discussions in Christian college dormsÂDo you lie if the Nazis knock on your door asking for the Jews you are hiding?Âwas a question ten Boom lived.
Let's discuss each one separately, shall we?
Landmark titles that changed the way we think, talk, witness, worship, and live.
These are books that have shaped evangelicalism as we see it todayÂnot an evangelicalism we wish and hope for. . . Books that over the last 50 years have altered the way American evangelicals pray, gather, talk, and reach outÂnot books that merely entertained.
I won't present all 50 at once. Instead, let's talk about them in groups of two-three. Let's discuss. Interact. Learn from each other. I will include the description of each book as written by CT. If you'd add osubtractct from the description, share that too.
Next Saturday, I'll post the next ones on the list. Unless we want to discuss 1 (or more) longer.
So let's start with . . .
50. Revivalism and Social Reform by Timothy L. Smith.
The new evangelicals were rightly wary of the liberal "social gospel." Yet they knew Jesus called them to serve the oppressed. Historian Timothy L. Smith destroyed the myth of the "heavenly minded" evangelical and helped us remember our history of personal and social holiness.
49.Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor and mystic invited us behind the curtain and into God's presence.
48.The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill.
The staple conundrum of late-night ethics discussions in Christian college dormsÂDo you lie if the Nazis knock on your door asking for the Jews you are hiding?Âwas a question ten Boom lived.
Let's discuss each one separately, shall we?
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