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C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University
C Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University Author:A. Donald MacLeod C. Stacey Woods was a moving force in evangelicalism. The Australian-born, Brethren-bred Woods came to Canada to head InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at the age of twenty-four. He went on to also become the first general secretary of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States. He was instrumental in the founding of the worldwide um... more »brella organization of indigenous student movements the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. His global vision inspired many of the most outstanding Christian leaders of the 1960s and 1970s from around the world.He was a brusque, outspoken entrepreneur whose whirlwind style achieved much but was not always suited to administration. A man of great strengths and weaknesses, perhaps his most striking achievement was challenging the anti-intellectualism of conservative American Christianity, encouraging an active engagement with the university. He confronted a fundamentalism that had abandoned to liberalism the very educational institutions its forebears had founded. Woods turned this approach on its head, encouraging active engagement with the students and faculty of the university as well as with the institution itself.This story is an important chapter in understanding the ways evangelicalism has interacted with culture in North America and around the world.
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The first complete biography of C. Stacey Woods
Provides an honest and objective assessment of a complex, multifaceted personality