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Preface
1. The Invasion of the Sects in Latin America
Typologies, Growth Rates, and Variation by Country
Disaster Evangelism
So Close to God and the United States
The Struggle within Protestantism
2. Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the Catholic Church
The Catholic Reformation in Latin America
The Passing of Ecumenism
Explaining Losses to Protestantism
The Quandaries of Clericalism and Activism
Counter-Reformation
3· From Doomsday to Dominion in North American Evangelicalism
The Decline of Liberal Protestantism
Evangelical Organization
Evangelical Theology
Evangelical Politics
The Struggle for the NAE and the Southern Baptists
Nuclear Dispensationalism
Reconstruction and the Latter Rain
The Restoration Revival
Dominion Theology
The Religious Right and World Mission
4· The Evangelical Mission Movement
Soldiers of Christ
The Lausanne Covenant
Mission Think Tanks, Church Growth, Signs and Wonders
Closed Countries
Hidden Peoples
Anthropology and Ethnotheology
Christ, Inc.
Church versus Parachurch
5· The Evangelical Awakening in Latin America
Adventists, Mormons, Witnesses
The Assemblies of God in Brazil
Pentecostalism as Power Encounter
Pentecostalism as Confonnity and Protest
Evangelism in Depth
The Billy Graham of Latin America
Church Planting
Political Polarization
The Latin American Theological Fraternity
CONE LA
6. The Religious Right Comes to Latin America
Liberation Theology
Hearings in Washington
Cuba and Grenada 1
Marching as to War
Hanging Back from War
Pressure from the Right
Campus Crusade for Christ
The Campaign to Save El Salvador
The Witch Hunt in Costa Rica
Contextualization
Refonnation in the Refonnation
7· The New Jerusalem of the Americas
Gospel Outreach
Could the Lord Have Something in Store for Brother Efrain?
The International Love Lift
Church, Army, and Guerrilla in the Ixil Triangle
Pastor Nicolas
Providing an Alternative
Let the Dead Bury the Dead
The Struggle for Social Responsibility
When the Saints Come Marching In
8. Evangelicals in the Sandinista-Contra War
The Sandinista-Evangelical Courtship
The Miskitos
The Taking of the Temples
The Popular Church
Patriotic Military Service
The Battle of the Pastors
The Propaganda War
Helping the Freedom Fighters
Religious Persecution in Nicaragua?
State of Emergency
9· World Vision in Ecuador
The Protestant Boom in Chimborazo
The Bishop of the Indians, Part I
Christian Violence
The Development of World Vision
The Scandals in Honduras
The Scandals in Imbabura
The Bishop of the Indians, Part II
Building up the Local Church
A Revolutionary Outlet
From Evangelism to Electoral Politics
Pilahufn
10. Reinterpreting the Invasion of the Sects as an Evangelical Awakening
Contrasting Visions of Reformation
Why Liberation Theology May Not Work
Pentecostalism as a Basis for Social Reformation
Evangelism and Oliver North
Reaping the Harvest
Appendix 1. Estimates of Protestant Representation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Appendix 2. Estimate of Evangelical Population in Latin America and the Caribbean
Appendix 3· Estimate of Evangelical Growth Factors in Latin America from 1960 to 1985, with Extrapolation to 2010
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Summary
Presents a general account of the evangelical challenge to Catholic predominance, with a focus on the collision with liberation theology in Central America. This title interprets the 'invasion of the sects' as an evangelical awakening, part of a wider religious reformation which could redefine the basis of Latin American politics.
