Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America

Authors Affiliations are at time of print publication. Print Save Cite Email Share. Subscriber Login Email Address. Chapter 1 California Kickback. Chapter 2 Dallas Orthodoxy. Chapter 3 On Location. Chapter 4 Phoenix Prophet. Chapter 5 Adirondack Fundamentalism. Chapter 6 Georgia Charismatics. Chapter 7 Bible School. Chapter 8 Campaign Journal. Chapter 9 Mississippi Missions. Only about 45 students attended Swaggart's college. Not many people attended the church services, and the sprawling campus of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries was poorly maintained.

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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey Into the Evangelical Subculture in America

But there are over a dozen more. Twenty-Five Years Later," written in , Balmer revisits some of the places he'd gone to and people he had spoken with a quarter century before.

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From Oregon to Florida, and from Texas to North Dakota, Balmer offers an immensely readable tour of the highways and byways of American evangelicalism. We visit a revival meeting in Florida, an Indian reservation in the Dakotas, a trade show for Christian booksellers, and a fundamentalist Bible camp in the Adirondacks. Through the eyes of these and other people Balmer meets on his journeys, we arrive at a more accurate and balanced understanding of an abiding tradition that, as the author argues, is both rich in theological insights and mired in contradictions.

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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory offers readers a genuine insight into the appeal that the evangelicals movement holds for thousands of Americans. Read more Read less. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Religion and American Culture: A History of Evangelicalism in America. Fundamentalism and American Culture New Edition. The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond. Customers who bought this item also bought.

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This review originally published on [ His book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, recounts these tales in a lively and readable format that is informative and critical, yet respectful and loving, toward this institution of his heritage. Yes, Balmer was reared in the Evangelical subculture, but became distanced and disheartened with it as he grew up.

Now, though, he is beginning to understand what it really means to him. Thus, Balmer's book serves two distinct purposes. First, he is dealing with his own personal feelings and experiences about and within the Evangelical movement. As Balmer wrestles with his thoughts on the subculture, the reader can better understand his own. Second, Balmer displays the variations in a subculture that to so many people appears so monolithic.

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He says, "I was pretty sure that the press had missed the story, that they had bunched Evangelicals together and failed to appreciate the spectrum of Evangelicalism in America. It would be nearly impossible to summarize the content of Balmer's book entirely. The book is organized in a travelogue style, and thus the chapters vary wildly. It would be better to describe the individual chapters as self-contained. In fact, reading the book is almost like reading a collection of short stories. Balmer certainly has a reason for doing so. If indeed it were possible to cram modern Evangelicalism into a box, then describing the movement in all its supposed diversity would be almost self-defeating.

Two examples from different ends of the spectrum in this author's opinion , should assist us in understanding the breadth of American Evangelicalism that Balmer wishes us to consider. The chapter is about church camps and the never-ending struggle of Evangelical parents to pass on their faith to their children. Balmer thinks that the greatest fear of Evangelical parents is that they will not follow in the footsteps of their parents' faith. In recent years, churches often hire youth pastors who job it is to "shield them [Evangelical children] from the perils of worldliness. It begins with music, of course, the kind that gets the kids excited while supporting a Christian message.

Wyrtzen's sermon initially includes an exhortation to follow the rules of the island, especially that of modesty. But the crux of his sermon is the call to be "born again by the Word of God.

He says America's Army is "the greatest denomination in the U. His goal is to bring more sheep to the fold.

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