How to be (the Author of) Born Again: Charles Colson and the Writing of Conversion in the Age of Evangelicalism

Charles Colson’s Born Again was the most celebrated spiritual memoir of the 1970s evangelical revival, and remains the best-known book-length conversion narrative of the twentieth century. Its account of how Colson—notoriously ruthless as a political aide to President Nixon—abruptly invited Christ i...

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Main Author: Oliver, Kendrick 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2014]
In: Religions
Year: 2014, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 886-911
Further subjects:B Sanctification
B Leonard LeSourd
B American Evangelicalism
B Charles Colson
B Born Again
B Evangelical
B Conversion
B Prison Fellowship
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