God's Man for the Gilded Age: D. L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism.(Book Review)

The Christian Century | December 27, 2003| | Copyright

By Bruce J. Evensen. Oxford University Press, 232 pp., $29.95.

WHETHER WE consider him an evangelistic, civic, media or other kind of figure, it is difficult today to comprehend the phenomenon that was Dwight Lyman Moody. To cite an example, Erik Larsen's bestseller, The Devil in the White City, which tells the parallel stories of a serial killer aim Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition, makes no reference to Moody whatsoever. Yet the Chicago backdrop of tension and bitter conflict between light and darkness, vice and civic righteousness, wealth and poverty is ...

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