Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America

by John G. Turner

Book Overview

Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million. Nondenominational organizations like Campus Crusade account for much of modern evangelicalism's dynamism and adaptation to mainstream American culture. Despite the importance of these "parachurch" organizations, says John Turner, historians have largely ignored...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807858730
• ISBN13: 9780807858738
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"