Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America
by Randall Balmer
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Randall Balmer's Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is an insightful and engaging journey into the world of conservative Christians in America. Originally published twenty-five years ago and the basis for an award-winning, three-part PBS documentary, this new edition is complete with a new chapter and an Afterward. In this immensely readable tour of the highways and byways of American evangelicalism, Balmer visits a revival meeting in Florida, an Indian reservation in the Dakotas, a trade show show more for Christian booksellers, and a fundamentalist Bible camp in the Adirondacks. Through the eyes of those t show lessTags
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This book is dated, so if you want to know about the current movers and shakers in the evangelical churches, you should look elsewhere. Also, Balmer is not a critical secularist; his portraits are sympathetic, if not always complementary.
However, if you want to know about the history of evangelicalism and why it is so diverse, this is an excellent book. Balmer visited a range of evangelical groups, including the bastion of evangelical theology, Dallas Theological Seminary; Capstone Cathedral, a very kooky off-shoot of Pentecostalism; Calvary Chapel in California, a proto-mega church; and group of dissident evangelicals from Trinity College. Each group is not only profiled, but set in historical context. This is an area I know a lot show more about and I still found new insights and connections in this book. show less
However, if you want to know about the history of evangelicalism and why it is so diverse, this is an excellent book. Balmer visited a range of evangelical groups, including the bastion of evangelical theology, Dallas Theological Seminary; Capstone Cathedral, a very kooky off-shoot of Pentecostalism; Calvary Chapel in California, a proto-mega church; and group of dissident evangelicals from Trinity College. Each group is not only profiled, but set in historical context. This is an area I know a lot show more about and I still found new insights and connections in this book. show less
Some insights, but nothing really new. Suffers from being outdated (how can you talk about mega churches without mentioning Saddleback these days?)
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Randall Balmer (Ph.D., Princeton University), a prize-winning historian and Emmy Award nominee, is the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College. Before coming to Dartmouth in 2012, he was professor of American religious history at Columbia University for twenty-seven years, and he has been a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, show more Drew, Emory, and Northwestern universities and in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Evangelicalism in America and Redeemer: The tile of Jimmy Carter. His second book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America, now in its fifth edition, was made into a three-part series for PBS. He has written and hosted two other documentaries for PBS, and he is working on another, a history of the Orthodox Church in Alaska. Dr. Balmer's commentaries about religion in America have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the Los Angeles Times, the Des Moines Register, the Washington Post, the Santa Fe flew Mexican, and the New York Times. Dr. Balmer was ordained an Episcopal priest in 2006. show less
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- Original publication date
- 1989-07-27
- Related movies
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (1989 | IMDb)
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- (3.98)
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 13
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