Ronald M. Enroth
Forfatter af Churches That Abuse
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Værker af Ronald M. Enroth
Evangelizing the Cults: How to Share Jesus With Children, Parents, Neighbors, and Friends Who Are Involved in a Cult (1990) 35 eksemplarer
The Jesus People 1 eksemplar
Sekten : bedreiging of bevrijding? 1 eksemplar
How Can You Reach a Cultist? 1 eksemplar
Voices From The Fringe 1 eksemplar
Dimensions of the Cult Conspiracy 1 eksemplar
Tarikatlar ve Yeni Dinler 1 eksemplar
Recovering from Churches That Abuse 1 eksemplar
Youth, Brainwashing, & Extremist Cults 1 eksemplar
Youth Brainwashing and the Extremist Cult 1 eksemplar
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In our late teens, we eloped and joined a Christian commune in early 1973 in Southern CA, after first attending Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, CA in 1972. The commune turned into a cult not long after we all moved to Vancouver, WA and my husband and I soon escaped. (Could have been an example from this book). A few years later my husband and I were living in San Francisco and cautiously began attending a church called Park Presidio Bible Church, which coincidentally was formerly pastored by Edward E. Plowman, who is mentioned in this book and was strongly involved in the “Jesus Movement.” In fact, he wrote a book similar to The Jesus People, mentioning many of the same people and documenting the same facts about hippies who gave up drugs for Jesus, and lived in communes and cults.
I found The Jesus People to be engrossing from a historical point of view, but disappointing to me as it ended too soon. So much happened after 1972 related to the various Christian churches and leaders. The “movement” began in the late 1960s and there was so much more to be written after this was published in 1972. For instance, Calvary Chapel and its founder Chuck Smith (and Lonnie Frisbee) are mentioned in passing, while today the church is a well-established international foundation of 1,800 churches. The authors had no idea at that time which groups would become cults and which would go on to become healthy, lifechanging organizations. The perspective of time makes a difference!
There are some black and white photos scattered throughout the book, but I would have liked more images. Nonetheless, this is a valuable and fascinating historic snapshot of a unique time of idealistic believers, sincere leaders, and manipulative cults.… (mere)