Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt

Synopsis

"In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book. David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well known individuals who at one time embraced the evangelical tradition but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine creative artists, social reformers, and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Within their highly individual stories, Hempton finds not only clues to the development of these particular creative men and women but also myriad insights into the strengths and weaknesses of one of the fastest growing religious traditions in the modern world.