Seasons of Refreshing

Evangelism and Revivals in America

By Keith J. Hardman
Foreword by Luis Palau

Baker Book House, $16.99
ISBN 0-8010-4389-1

Now at last, a full-length treatment of revivals in America from the earliest settlement to the present. Instead of focusing narrowly on an isolated period or specific evangelist, Seasons of Refreshing traces the entire development of modern mass evangelism and the spiritual awakenings associated with it.

After a brief review of the church's growth from Pentecost to the Puritans, the author leads us on an "errand in the wilderness" and examines the early "harvests" under Stoddard. Frelinghuysen, Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys, Finney, Moody, Sunday--all forming an unbroken chain leading up to the present activities of Billy Graham and Luis Palau.

"All of us who love Jesus Christ want to see a mighty and fresh evangelistic explosion in our generation," says Palau in his foreword. "Hardman reminds us that it happened in our history before; it should happen again in our time....Seasons of Refreshing has stimulated me--and I'm sure will stimulate all its readers--to a renewed passion for evangelism and revival in America in our day."

Keith J. Hardman, chair of the department of philosophy and religion at Ursinus College, is a recognized authority on mass evangelism and awakenings in North America. In addition to writing the issue of Christian History magazine devoted to this topic, he is the author of the definitive biography Charles Grandison Finney, 1792-1875: Revivalist and Reformer and Issues in American Christianity.

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