Saturday, May 3, 2014

All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America


by David Edwin Harrell Jr.320 pp. paper $24.95

The first objective history of the great revivals that swept the country after World War II. All Things Are Possible tells the story of the victories and defeats of such giants of the revival as William Branham, Oral Roberts, Jack Coe, T. L. Osborn, A. A. Allen. It also tells of the powerful present day evangelists who carrying on the revival, including Robert Schambach and Morris Cerullo. The book includes photographs of Schambach, Allen, Cerullo, Branham, Roberts, Osborn, Coe and many others. Those who lived through the great revival of the 1950's and 1960's will be thrilled to read about those exciting days. Those who did not experience the revivals first-hand should read this book to gain a better understanding of America’s religious climate today. David Edwin Harrell, Jr. is a professor of history at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Though aspects of his approach will not be accepted by some readers, he has visited Schambach revivals and aims to write from a scholarly yet sympathetic perspective.

We need to be supernaturally natural and naturally supernatural.  —Rob Rufus

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