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Restoring the Faith

The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

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Restoring the Faith

The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

American Pentecostalism began as a culturally isolated sect intent upon announcing the imminence of the world's end. The sect's early millenarian fervor gradually became muted in favor of flag-waving patriotism. At the end of the twentieth century it has become an affluent, worldwide movement thoroughly entrenched in popular culture. Edith Blumhofer uses the Assemblies of God, the largest classical Pentecostal denomination in the world, as a lens through which to view the changing nature of Anglo Pentecostalism in the United States. She illustrates how the original mission to proclaim the end resulted in the development of Bible schools, the rise of the charismatic movement, and the popularity of such figures as Aimee Semple McPherson, Charles Fox Parham, and David Du Plessis. Blumhofer also examines the sect's use of radio and television and the creation of a parallel Christian culture

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University of Illinois Press

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0252062817

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Aimee Semple McPherson

Everybody's Sister

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

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Everybody's Sister

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

A religious leader who strongly identified with ordinary folk, she attracted hundreds of thousands of loyal followers throughout the United States and Canada.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802801552

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Songs I Love to Sing

The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship

By: Edith L. Blumhofer

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Songs I Love to Sing

The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship

By: Edith L. Blumhofer

Learn the surprising history shared by some of today’s most popular hymns. How did “How Great Thou Art,” an obscure Swedish hymn, get covered by Elvis? How did “Just as I Am” save Johnny Cash? How did dc Talk sanctify ’90s pop rock? In short: the Billy Graham crusades. Music animated these evangelistic extravaganzas, all of it carefully orchestrated by the “chord of three”: celebrated preacher Billy Graham, Gospel Music Hall of Fame baritone George Beverly Shea, and choral conductor and emcee Clifford Barrows. And the crusades went on to change the larger face of American music, influencing iconic popular artists in the second half of the twentieth century. The crusade songbook also took root in churches, its use spreading beyond evangelical soil into mainline Protestant and Catholic congregations. In Songs I Love to Sing, Edith L. Blumhofer narrates the “biographies” of some of the most beloved songs in modern hymnody with verve and affection. Move beyond mere nostalgia. Discover the fascinating stories behind the soundtrack of American Christianity.

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1467467588

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Her Heart Can See

The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

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Her Heart Can See

The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915) was the most prolific of all American hymn writers. Having lost her sight in infancy through a doctor's negligence, Fanny went on to compose more than 9,000 hymns, as well as various other songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions. Crosby's hymns, including such all-time favorites as "Blessed Assurance," continue to be sung around the world. She was also involved with New York City's rescue missions and with other benevolent efforts. She rubbed shoulders with the likes of Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, Winfield Scott, Dwight L. Moody, Ira Sankey, Jenny Lind, P.T. Barnum, and many other famous figures who people these pages. Drawing on primary sources, including thousands of unpublished manuscripts, Blumhofer sorts fact from fiction in the life of this remarkable nineteenth-century northeastern Protestant woman, in the process showing why "this diminutive woman" was so beloved.--From publisher description.

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Restoring the Faith

The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

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The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture

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Songs I Love to Sing

The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship

By: Edith L. Blumhofer

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The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship

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Aimee Semple McPherson

Everybody's Sister

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

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Everybody's Sister

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

A religious leader who strongly identified with ordinary folk, she attracted hundreds of thousands of loyal followers throughout the United States and Canada.

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Her Heart Can See

The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer

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The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby

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Twentieth-century Evangelicalism

A Guide to the Sources

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer,Joel A. Carpenter

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Twentieth-century Evangelicalism

A Guide to the Sources

By: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer,Joel A. Carpenter

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Garland Science

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0824030400

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Edith Stein Letters to Roman Ingarden

The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Volume 12

By: Edith Stein,Hugh Candler Hunt

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Edith Stein Letters to Roman Ingarden

The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Volume 12

By: Edith Stein,Hugh Candler Hunt

Edith Stein and Roman Ingarden, both students of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, corresponded extensively between 1917 and 1938. These 162 letters, most published here for the first time, reveal a friendship that spanned the adult lives of these two important 20th-century thinkers. Through Stein’s letters, the reader can follow her through her student days, her conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, her professional life, and her decision to become a Carmelite nun in the Carmel of Cologne, where she took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. The letters end in 1938, when the Nazi threat escalating throughout Eastern Europe made correspondence difficult, especially across national borders. Four years later Edith Stein was arrested in the Netherlands by the Nazi SS, transported to Auschwitz, and was killed in the gas chambers. Roman Ingarden survived World War II, continued his academic work in Poland, and died in 1970. Although Ingarden’s letters to her have not been found, Stein’s to him also help us understand the life of this Polish phenomenologist and aesthetician, his life in Poland, his intellectual development, his own writings and academic career, and the editorial assistance Stein provided for all of the works he published in German. Translated from the newest critical German edition by Dr. Hugh Candler Hunt, this premiere English edition of her correspondence—volume 12 of ICS Publications’ Collected Works of Edith Stein—gives us a fascinating and intimate window into Edith Stein’s rich life and personality, revealing her warmth and humor, deep capacity for friendship, and remarkable intellectual and spiritual depth. Book has 13 photos, bibliography and linked index.

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ICS Publications

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1939272319

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Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)

By: Edith Stein

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Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)

By: Edith Stein

Edith Stein comes alive through these warm, totally attentive letters. She joins a deeply sensitive heart with her keen intelligence, revealing herself to be a wise mentor and a caring friend available to anyone who approached her. Here we learn what was truly important to her: the total well-being of those who treasured her letters enough to preserve them even while suffering the havoc of war and oppression. This volume offers the first English translation of the majority of her surviving letters, with 4 photos and a fully linked index of recipients.

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1939272432

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Edith Stein Essays on Woman

The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Vol. 2

By: Edith Stein

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Edith Stein Essays on Woman

The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Vol. 2

By: Edith Stein

To help celebrate the fourth centenary of the birth of St. John of the Cross in 1542, Edith Stein received the task of preparing a study of his writings. She uses her skill as a philosopher to enter into an illuminating reflection on the difference between the two symbols of cross and night. Pointing out how entering the night is synonymous with carrying the cross, she provides a condensed presentation of John's thought on the active and passive nights, as discussed in The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night. All of this leads Edith to speak of the glory of resurrection that the soul shares, through a unitive contemplation described chiefly in The Living Flame of Love. In the summer of 1942, the Nazis without warrant took Edith away. The nuns found the manuscript of this profound study lying open in her room. Because of the Nazis' merciless persecution of Jews in Germany, Edith Stein traveled discreetly across the border into Holland to find safe harbor in the Carmel of Echt. But the Nazi invasion of Holland in 1940 again put Edith in danger. The cross weighed down heavily as those of Jewish birth were harassed. Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross's superiors then assigned her a task they thought would take her mind off the threatening situation. The fourth centenary of the birth, of St. John of the Cross (1542) was approaching, and Edith could surely contribute a valuable study for the celebration. It is no surprise that in view of her circumstances she discovered in the subject of the cross a central viewpoint for her study. A subject like this enabled her to grasp John's unity of being as expressed in his life and works. Using her training in phenomenology, she helps the reader apprehend the difference in the symbolic character of cross and night and why the night-symbol prevails in John. She clarifies that detachment is designated by him as a night through which the soul must pass to reach union with God and points out how entering the night is equivalent to carrying the cross. Finally, in a fascinating way Edith speaks of how the heart or fountainhead of personal life, an inmost region, is present in both God and the soul and that in the spiritual marriage this inmost region is surrendered by each to the other. She observes that in the soul seized by God in contemplation all that is mortal is consumed in the fire of eternal love. The spirit as spirit is destined for immortal being, to move through fire along a path from the cross of Christ to the glory of his resurrection. Book includes two photos and fully linked index.

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1939272017

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Book's by Edith Blumhofer

Restoring the Faith

Restoring the Faith

Aimee Semple McPherson

Aimee Semple McPherson

Songs I Love to Sing

Songs I Love to Sing

Her Heart Can See

Her Heart Can See

Restoring the Faith

Restoring the Faith

Songs I Love to Sing

Songs I Love to Sing

Aimee Semple McPherson

Aimee Semple McPherson

Her Heart Can See

Her Heart Can See

Twentieth-century Evangelicalism

Twentieth-century Evangelicalism

Edith Stein Letters to Roman Ingarden

Edith Stein Letters to Roman Ingarden

Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)

Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942 (The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 5)

Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Edith Stein Essays on Woman

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