The American Experience

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This set brings you eight Christian History & Biography issues on the influence of the gospel in the Western Hemisphere for only $29.95! Set includes:

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Issue 92. America's 20th Century Evangelical Awakening

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In this issue you will discover the Christian leaders and organizations that helped define a worldwide movement that now claims at least 70 million adults in the United States alone.

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Issue 90. Adoniram & Ann Judson: American Mission Pioneers

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Two attractive young people from small-town New England became the poster children of a cause that soon swept through the nation: Missions.

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Issue 84. Pilgrims & Exiles: Amish, Mennonites, & Brethren

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For centuries, the Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren have spurned prosperity and suffered persucution to follow Christ and their convictions. Learn about these conscientious objectors to modernity and the theological views that drive their unique way of life.

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Issue 82. Phoebe Palmer: Mother of the Holiness Movement

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Phoebe Palmer mothered the American holiness movement, from which emerged new holiness and eventually Pentecostal denominations, missions, camp meetings, works of social reform, and female ministry.

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Issue 77. Jonathan Edwards: Puritan Pastor & Theologian

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Christian History & Biography's second installment on Jonathan Edwards recounts various stages of his life and ministry that have made profound impacts on Evangelicalism, American Christianity, and the global Body of Christ.

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Issue 66. How the West was Really Won

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This issue of Christian History & Biography recounts the neglected story of Christianity and the settling of the American West.

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Issue 62. Bound for Canaan: Africans in America

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This issue covers the story of a faith that finally overwhelmed whips and shackles, and persevered in spite of illiteracy, superstition, and cowardice.

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Issue 58. The Rise of Pentecostalism

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Perhaps the most significant development in twentieth-century Christianity, Pentecostalism has grown from a few hundred members to 650 million worldwide—the largest Christian denomination after Catholicism.

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Issue 55. The Monkey Trial & the Rise of Fundamentalism

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This issue of Christian History & Biography begins with the famous Monkey Trial and investigates the clash between fundamentalism and modernism, between God and reason.

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Issue 50. Christianity & the American Revolution

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Colonists left England for freedom of religion—now they fought England for freedom on all other counts. Yet, sandwiched between the First and Second Great Awakenings, the American Revolution was still unavoidably religious.

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Issue 45. Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders—Frontier Revivals

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Open this issue to learn more about the young, common men who rode themselves to exhaustion to spread the gospel and whose ministry sparked an American religious revolution that would firmly ground Christianity as a staple of Americanism.

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Issue 41. The American Puritans

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Often mislabeled as cold and devoid of happiness, true Puritans sought to live life joyfully through work and play, committing all things to the glory of God. One sixteenth-century tract even promotes them as "the hotter sort of Protestants."

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Issue 35. Columbus & Christianity in the Americas

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In this issue, you will learn of Columbus' spiritual calling to explore, encounter heated debates over evangelistic techniques in the new world, and enter a delicate discussion of the relationship between the Cross and the sword.

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Issue 23. Spiritual Awakenings in North America

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Open this issue of Christian History & Biography to awaken yourself to the empowering Divine presence available to all Christians.

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Issue 20. Charles Finney: American Revivalism

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Finney's revisions of New England Calvinism invited the label of Pelagian from colleagues. Charismatic, fiery preaching caused many to question the validity of any appeal to emotion. His leadership of Oberlin College drew accusations of being a radical. You'll uncover these controversial claims in this issue's look at Charles Finney, the father of American Revivalism.

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Issue 8. Jonathan Edwards & the Great Awakening

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Though beset with controversy and ongoing ministry difficulties, Jonathan Edwards managed to combine Herculean intellectual labors with child-like piety on his quest to know the infinitely complex yet blissfully simple Almighty God.

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