American Decades
"What the Bible Contains for the Believer"
Essay
By: Rev. George F. Pentecost
Date: 1915
Source: Pentecost, Rev. George F. "What the Bible Contains for the Believer." In Amzi C. Dixon, Louis Meyer, and Reuben A. Torrey, eds., The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, vol. 10. Chicago: Testimony, 1914(?). Reprint in Marsden, George M. The Fundamentals. Vol. 4. Fundamentalism in American Religion, 1880–1950, ed. Joel A. Carpenter. New York: Garland, 1988, 97–99.
About the Author: George Frederick Pentecost (1842–1920) was an American clergyman and author who was recognized as a strong supporter of biblical authority and a compelling preacher whose sermons featured both deep feeling and unusual breadth. In addition to serving various congregations in Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, he undertook evangelistic campaigns to Europe and Asia and spent six years as pastor of a...
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1910's Religion Primary Sources
- A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects
- "The Church and the Labor Question"
- "Cardinal's Golden Jubilee"
- America in the Making
- Acres of Diamonds
- Prisoners of Hope and Other Sermons
- "What the Bible Contains for the Believer"
- A Theology for the Social Gospel
- The Churches of Christ in Time of War
- Cardinal Gibbons' Letter to the U.S. Archbishops
- "A Program for the Reconstruction of Judaism"
- "Interchurch World Movement Report"
- Leaves From the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
