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Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
Timothy Gloege
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Description for Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
hardcover. American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTK; HRAM6; HRCC9; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody in 1889, the institute became a center of fundamentalism under the guidance of the innovative promoter and president of Quaker Oats, Henry Crowell. Gloege explores the framework for understanding humanity shared by these business and evangelical leaders, whose perspectives clearly differed from those underlying modern scientific theories. At the core of their ""corporate evangelical"" framework was a modern individualism understood primarily ... Read more
American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody in 1889, the institute became a center of fundamentalism under the guidance of the innovative promoter and president of Quaker Oats, Henry Crowell. Gloege explores the framework for understanding humanity shared by these business and evangelical leaders, whose perspectives clearly differed from those underlying modern scientific theories. At the core of their ""corporate evangelical"" framework was a modern individualism understood primarily ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469633435
SKU
V9781469633435
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About Timothy Gloege
Timothy Gloege (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2007) is an independent scholar. This is his first book, a highly revised version of his George Marsden-directed dissertation.
Reviews for Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
Offers [insights] on the social and economic contexts that shaped both institutional and personal religious identity since the end of the nineteenth century.-Religious Studies Review A first-rate book that deserves close scholarly attention.-Review and Expositor In this significant, thought-provoking work, Gloege traces the rise of Evangelicalism after the Civil War.-CHOICE Eminently readable and frequently brilliant.-Christianity Today ... Read more