This was "work" reading... I'm putting together a study of Christianity Today magazine as a case study of the Institutionalization process. Henry's autobiography is fascinating reading; he was quite a good writer. At one point in a later chapter, Henry reported telling a Christianity Today board member that he would keep his grievances private, unless he wrote a memoir... He followed through on that promise. Names are named and scores are settled. This book will be most appealing to readers who
This was "work" reading... I'm putting together a study of Christianity Today magazine as a case study of the Institutionalization process. Henry's autobiography is fascinating reading; he was quite a good writer. At one point in a later chapter, Henry reported telling a Christianity Today board member that he would keep his grievances private, unless he wrote a memoir... He followed through on that promise. Names are named and scores are settled. This book will be most appealing to readers who are: (a) historians [of religion, or the 20th century]; (b) current evangelicals who aren't afraid to think; or (c) recovering evangelicals (such as myself) who are trying to make sense of their past.
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