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Today the Church of the Nazarene faces issues that arise directly out of its past. For that reason, Past and Prospect argues that Nazarenes will be better equipped to face their future as a church armed by an understanding of their own history.
Church historian Stan Ingersol examines issues that have characterized the Nazarene way of life during that denominations first century, showing how the trajectory shaped by the churchs founders has been altered through time by the shifting tides of Fundamentalism, mainstream Evangelicalism, global expansion, and the culture of affluence....