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Recovering Classic Evangelicalism

Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry

By: Gregory Alan Thornbury

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Recovering Classic Evangelicalism

Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry

By: Gregory Alan Thornbury

Once upon a time, evangelicalism was a countercultural upstart movement. Positioned in between mainline denominational liberalism and reactionary fundamentalism, evangelicals saw themselves as evangelists to all of culture. Billy Graham was reaching the masses with his Crusades, Francis Schaeffer was reaching artists and university students at L’Abri, Larry Norman was recording Jesus music on secular record labels and touring with Janis Joplin and the Doors, and Carl F. H. Henry was reaching the intellectuals through Christianity Today. It was the dawn of “classic evangelicalism.” Surveying the current evangelical landscape, however, one gets the feeling that we’re backpedaling quickly. We are more theologically diffuse, culturally gun-shy, and fragmented than ever before. What has happened? And how do we find our way back? Using the life and work of Carl F. H. Henry as a key to evangelicalism’s past and a cipher for its future, this book provides crucial insights for a renewed vision of the church’s place in modern society and charts a refreshing course toward unity under the banner of “classic evangelicalism.”

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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock

By: Gregory Thornbury

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Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock

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The riveting, untold story of the “Father of Christian Rock” and the conflicts that launched a billion-dollar industry at the dawn of America’s culture wars. In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like the Who, Janis Joplin, and the Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus. Billboard called Norman “the most important songwriter since Paul Simon,” and his music would go on to inspire members of bands as diverse as U2, The Pixies, Guns ‘N Roses, and more. To a young generation of Christians who wanted a way to be different in the American cultural scene, Larry was a godsend—spinning songs about one’s eternal soul as deftly as he did ones critiquing consumerism, middle-class values, and the Vietnam War. To the religious establishment, however, he was a thorn in the side; and to secular music fans, he was an enigma, constantly offering up Jesus to problems they didn’t think were problems. Paul McCartney himself once told Larry, “You could be famous if you’d just drop the God stuff,” a statement that would foreshadow Norman’s ultimate demise. In Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Music?, Gregory Alan Thornbury draws on unparalleled access to Norman’s personal papers and archives to narrate the conflicts that defined the singer’s life, as he crisscrossed the developing fault lines between Evangelicals and mainstream American culture—friction that continues to this day. What emerges is a twisting, engrossing story about ambition, art, friendship, betrayal, and the turns one’s life can take when you believe God is on your side.

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Recovering Classic Evangelicalism

Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry

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Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock

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Saving California's Coast

Army Engineers at Oceanside and Humboldt Bay

By: Susan Pritchard O'Hara,Gregory Graves

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Saving California's Coast

Army Engineers at Oceanside and Humboldt Bay

By: Susan Pritchard O'Hara,Gregory Graves

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

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Recovering Classic Evangelicalism

Recovering Classic Evangelicalism

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

Recovering Classic Evangelicalism

Recovering Classic Evangelicalism

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

Saving California's Coast

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