Description
The High Tide and the Turn
Volume 12: A.D. 1914 to 2001
A New Christendom Explodes Into Life in the Third World
This volume, at 454 pages half again longer than the earlier ones, opens with the calamity of the First World War, the scale and horrors of which destroyed the 19th century confidence that science would create happiness. The Great War bred violent and tragic offspring: the communist revolutions, Nazism, the Second World War, and the nuclear arms-driven Cold War. Christianity suffered horribly under all these materialist ideologies, and then was repudiated by the culture of sexual and consumer hedonism which eventually replaced them. Yet despite all this, Christianity in all its major branches recovered and refocused on Christ’s Great Commission, while faith in Christ surged anew in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Chapter One
Seventeen million die in a war that becomes the Great Repudiation
- The man who tried to halt the war
- An attempted genocide long concealed
Chapter Two
Clergy slain in droves, church schools close as the Soviets take power
- The curious bullet that failed to kill
Chapter Three
Rupture, chaos, dismay shatter Christendom as Modernism takes its toll
- How Baur plus Bauer went sour
- The old faith verses new realities
Chapter Four
God, fidelity, honor, truth—all safe targets for scorn in the era of debunking
- The fall and rise of Oscar Wilde
- The case that put the Bible on trial
- Dewey and the downfall of the school
Chapter Five
The Marxist ‘paradise’ becomes a slave state, avowed to kill off God
- Millions die the worst of all deaths
- The price of ruining a media dream
Chapter Six
Exhausted by the war, wrecked by the peace, the Germans go Nazi
- The Mussolini flop
- Spain’s bad man/good man
- The ancient question: Why the Jews?
Chapter Seven
How the insistent cry for disarmament led to the worst ever war
- The hot-seat throne of Pius XII
- Some Christians spoke out and died
Chapter Eight
Three Christian politicians bring unity to Europe grounded in their faith
- The resentful peasant boy who grew up to become modern China’s creator and a noted mass murderer
- Korean attack challenges western resolve in the Pacific
Chapter Nine
In pain and persecution history’s curtain rises on Chinese Christianity
Chapter Ten
Cries for change assail the changeless Church in the Vatican II tumult
- Ratzinger: the man who finished the job
- Hostile media and rising public opposition cause America to lose its first war ever
Chapter Eleven
The tale of the sixties: from Alabama valor to Woodstock squalor
- The evolution of a revolution
Chapter Twelve
Christianity is rejected as the quest for liberty fuels a war for license
- A key battle that Christians won
Chapter Thirteen
If science overrules all, the scientific miracle’s dark side will triumph
- Armageddon: a scientific scenario
Chapter Fourteen
How a lanky farm kid made the 20th century an evangelical victory
- The endless quest for the end-times
- The sad saga of the ‘Seven Sisters’
Chapter Fifteen
In less than a century, more than 200 million accept Pentecostalism
- The queen and king of faith healing
Chapter Sixteen
How the genius of JPII transformed the papacy and foiled its traducers
- The nun who won over the world
- Blows that shattered the priestly image
Chapter Seventeen
How defiant Christians triggered the collapse of the Soviet colossus
- The microfilm that changed history
Chapter Eighteen
How the Jewish quest for a homeland turned into a cauldron of war
- The long agony of Christian Egypt
Chapter Nineteen
Myth to masterpiece: the irresistible advance of ‘Mere Christianity’
- Wilt thou be baptized in this faith? Nope!
- The ‘dejected and reluctant convert’
Chapter Twenty
The faith rises again as millions join Christ across the third world
- The study group that exploded
- The priceless gift of notoriety
