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Jan 14
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Sonia Hazard, "Empire of Print: Evangeli...

Marshall Poe
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Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media (Oxford UP, 2025) offers a fresh account of evangelical power by uncovering how the American Tract Society (ATS) leveraged print media to spread its message across an expanding nation. One of the era's largest media corporations and a pillar of the benevolent empire, the ATS circulated some 5.6 billi ... Show More
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Barry G. Webb, "Job: Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary" (Lexham Academic, 2023)
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