God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America
Autor Larry Eskridgeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mai 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190881351
ISBN-10: 0190881356
Pagini: 402
Ilustrații: 30 illus.
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190881356
Pagini: 402
Ilustrații: 30 illus.
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
[An] excellent new book...The book reads as an invaluable chronicle of an important moment in the history of American evangelicalism...This is an important, valuable, and engaging book that will certainly be the standard on the Jesus People movement for years to come.
Larry Eskridge has written what will instantly become the standard account of the Jesus movement and its legacy...all scholars of recent American religion would do well to take a turn through God's Forever Family.
This is an important contribution to our historical understanding of American (and global) Evangelicalism.
This book is the first serious, scholarly account of the Jesus Movement...We owe [Larry Eskridge] a debt of gratitude.
If you haven't yet checked out Larry Eskridge's God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America, you should move it to the top of your "to read" list right away. Beyond being beautifully written, the history (or histories) of the Jesus People it narrates should provoke some interesting questions for anyone interested in religion, culture, and politics in the twentieth century... Eskridge persuasively argues that despite the Jesus People movement's relatively short lifespan, it significantly changed evangelical culture in the long run. But God's Forever Family also gives us a much deeper look at the movement itself than previously available, and thus offers us an opportunity to consider it within the broader religious and cultural transformations of the period.
[A] painfully funny yet deadly serious study of the Jesus People, circa 1966 to 1976...The book presents a deft study of a timeless process of challenge and renewal in American Christianity.
It's extraordinary that it's taken this long for someone to write a comprehensively researched history and analysis of the Jesus People of the '60s and '70s... [Eskrdige] deserves our grateful thanks for this account of how large numbers of young people from the '60s hippie counter-culture embraced Christianity...God's Forever Family fills a vital gap in chronicling a movement which radically changed the face of the American Church and should therefore be on the book shelf of every theological college.
[A] rich, tender history of one of the more surprising developments of the late 1960s Thanks to Larry Eskridge, the Jesus People finally have a rich, documented history of their own.
Right on time for a new generation to reflect on the free flowing move of God that transformed people and institutions...The sheer enormity of fact-gathering in Eskridge's exploration of the Jesus Movement makes this a terrific reference.
Larry Eskridge does a great job of highlighting this often forgotten yet extremely influential segment of American evangelicalism, bringing his own personal experience and humor to brighten up what could have been a dull, scholarly tome. Just a great, fun, enlightening and informative read.
This book is the epitome of definitive, with rich, entertaining detail on all the key players and personalities that united 1960s/70s youth culture and evangelical Christianity. Anyone who has background in the Christian counterculture, the 1970s charismatic renewal, or the Calvary Chapel, Vineyard, or Willow Creek church associations, will feel a sense of reading one s autobiography in this book. More broadly, the book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the shape of contemporary evangelicalism.
This rich and surprisingly entertaining book is the definitive work on the Jesus People movement, a significant shaper of contemporary evangelicalism. Eskridge masters an incredible range of stories and sources. For anyone with a background in the Jesus People movement, Calvary Chapels, Vineyard churches, the Willow Creek Association, or the charismatic renewal that began in the 1970s, this is like reading an autobiography."
This long-awaited book tells one of the most important untold stories in postwar American religious life. One cannot understand the resurgence of American evangelical Christianity without taking into account the way the hippie Christians shaped its character and development. God's Forever Family is a splendid history. Both thoroughly researched and engaging, it will become the authoritative account of the Jesus People.
Blossoming amidst the fads and frenzy of the youthful counterculture, the Jesus People blurred traditional boundaries between conservative religion and consumer popular culture. With clarity and insight, Larry Eskridge unearths the backstories and central dynamics of this curious phenomenon to show how it left a lasting mark on American evangelicalism. Solidly researched, God's Forever Family is sure to become the go-to text on the Jesus Movement.
In this substantial contribution to American social history, Eskridge [...] makes a cogent case for the continuing relevance of the youth-oriented Jesus movement that peaked in the 1970s, was largely neglected by scholars in subsequent decades, and is given definitive treatment here. Eskridge rightly credits the movement with changing attitudes of evangelicals from separatism to engagement in the world. Highly recommended." -G.R. Thursby, emeritus, University of Florida, CHOICE
Eskridge does an excellent job of offering a narrative of the late 1960s and 1970s jesus people Movements while inserting retrospective insights that position the vents in the wider socio-historical context of American culture and ecclesial responses to social change... This is an important contribution to our historical understanding of American (and global) Evangelicalism. It will serve as a sourcebook for years to come.
This well-researched and deftly written book will probably become the definitive history of the Jesus People movement, which caught the attention of the American public in the early 1970s.
Larry Eskridge has written what will instantly become the standard account of the Jesus movement and its legacy...all scholars of recent American religion would do well to take a turn through God's Forever Family.
This is an important contribution to our historical understanding of American (and global) Evangelicalism.
This book is the first serious, scholarly account of the Jesus Movement...We owe [Larry Eskridge] a debt of gratitude.
If you haven't yet checked out Larry Eskridge's God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America, you should move it to the top of your "to read" list right away. Beyond being beautifully written, the history (or histories) of the Jesus People it narrates should provoke some interesting questions for anyone interested in religion, culture, and politics in the twentieth century... Eskridge persuasively argues that despite the Jesus People movement's relatively short lifespan, it significantly changed evangelical culture in the long run. But God's Forever Family also gives us a much deeper look at the movement itself than previously available, and thus offers us an opportunity to consider it within the broader religious and cultural transformations of the period.
[A] painfully funny yet deadly serious study of the Jesus People, circa 1966 to 1976...The book presents a deft study of a timeless process of challenge and renewal in American Christianity.
It's extraordinary that it's taken this long for someone to write a comprehensively researched history and analysis of the Jesus People of the '60s and '70s... [Eskrdige] deserves our grateful thanks for this account of how large numbers of young people from the '60s hippie counter-culture embraced Christianity...God's Forever Family fills a vital gap in chronicling a movement which radically changed the face of the American Church and should therefore be on the book shelf of every theological college.
[A] rich, tender history of one of the more surprising developments of the late 1960s Thanks to Larry Eskridge, the Jesus People finally have a rich, documented history of their own.
Right on time for a new generation to reflect on the free flowing move of God that transformed people and institutions...The sheer enormity of fact-gathering in Eskridge's exploration of the Jesus Movement makes this a terrific reference.
Larry Eskridge does a great job of highlighting this often forgotten yet extremely influential segment of American evangelicalism, bringing his own personal experience and humor to brighten up what could have been a dull, scholarly tome. Just a great, fun, enlightening and informative read.
This book is the epitome of definitive, with rich, entertaining detail on all the key players and personalities that united 1960s/70s youth culture and evangelical Christianity. Anyone who has background in the Christian counterculture, the 1970s charismatic renewal, or the Calvary Chapel, Vineyard, or Willow Creek church associations, will feel a sense of reading one s autobiography in this book. More broadly, the book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the shape of contemporary evangelicalism.
This rich and surprisingly entertaining book is the definitive work on the Jesus People movement, a significant shaper of contemporary evangelicalism. Eskridge masters an incredible range of stories and sources. For anyone with a background in the Jesus People movement, Calvary Chapels, Vineyard churches, the Willow Creek Association, or the charismatic renewal that began in the 1970s, this is like reading an autobiography."
This long-awaited book tells one of the most important untold stories in postwar American religious life. One cannot understand the resurgence of American evangelical Christianity without taking into account the way the hippie Christians shaped its character and development. God's Forever Family is a splendid history. Both thoroughly researched and engaging, it will become the authoritative account of the Jesus People.
Blossoming amidst the fads and frenzy of the youthful counterculture, the Jesus People blurred traditional boundaries between conservative religion and consumer popular culture. With clarity and insight, Larry Eskridge unearths the backstories and central dynamics of this curious phenomenon to show how it left a lasting mark on American evangelicalism. Solidly researched, God's Forever Family is sure to become the go-to text on the Jesus Movement.
In this substantial contribution to American social history, Eskridge [...] makes a cogent case for the continuing relevance of the youth-oriented Jesus movement that peaked in the 1970s, was largely neglected by scholars in subsequent decades, and is given definitive treatment here. Eskridge rightly credits the movement with changing attitudes of evangelicals from separatism to engagement in the world. Highly recommended." -G.R. Thursby, emeritus, University of Florida, CHOICE
Eskridge does an excellent job of offering a narrative of the late 1960s and 1970s jesus people Movements while inserting retrospective insights that position the vents in the wider socio-historical context of American culture and ecclesial responses to social change... This is an important contribution to our historical understanding of American (and global) Evangelicalism. It will serve as a sourcebook for years to come.
This well-researched and deftly written book will probably become the definitive history of the Jesus People movement, which caught the attention of the American public in the early 1970s.
Notă biografică
Larry Eskridge was born in North Carolina and raised in the Chicago area, where he was involved with the Jesus People movement in the 1970s. A student of evangelicals' relationship to mass media and pop culture, he was on the staff of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College for over 25 years.