This book offers an authoritative overview of the history of evangelicalism as a global movement, from its origins in Europe and North America in the first half of the eighteenth century to its present-day dynamic growth in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania. Starting with a definition of the movement within the context of the history of Protestantism, it follows the history of evangelicalism from its early North Atlantic revivals to the great expansion in the Victorian era, through to its fracturing and reorientation in response to the stresses of modernity and total war in the late...

One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Rene Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as the conscience of modern French poetry. Translated by Mark Hutchinson, "The Inventors" is a companion volume to Char s critically acclaimed "Hypnos." It gathers more than forty poems that represent a cross-section of Char s mature work, spanning from 1936 to 1988. All three genres of Char s work are represented here: verse poems, prose poems, and the abrupt, lapidary propositions for which he is best known. These "maxima sententia" combine the terseness of La Rochefoucauld with the probing and...