32 Christians Who Changed Their World

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Glenn Sunshine

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The Christian faith is a call to adventure. Be inspired by these thirty-two saints and give thanks for their faithful stories. Now go and do likewise where God has put you.

Look Inside the Book

For two thousand years, average Christians have been transforming culture, and this collection of stories by Dr. Glenn Sunshine tells some of those stories. Men like Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon laid the foundations for science. Political figures like Abba Enbaqom and Sorghaghtani Beki (daughter-in-law of Genghis Khan) promoted Christianity in societies hostile to it. Christians like Roque González and Solomon Plaatje opposed racial oppression, and heroes like Andre Trocme and Ho Fengshan helped Jews escape the Holocaust.

These men and women all have stories that show how broad and transformative the Christian faith really has been on the world. Learn these stories and be like them.

What People Are Saying:

“[These Christians] worked across various cultural spheres as if Christian truth mattered as much there as in any church. They sought to educate because they believed God is truth. They sought to liberate, because they knew every person bears God’s image and that truth sets us free. They sought to create, because in creating we worship the Creator. They sought to alleviate suffering, because God had, originally, created the world good. They fought injustice because God is just and wants justice in His world. They lived as if Christ is King, because they knew He is.” ~John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center

“My friend, Glenn Sunshine has done it again, he’s made history speak to us. The dead yet live in his book, 32 Christians Who Changed Their World. They gave testimony to the Lordship of Christ at different times, and in very different places, and they still do. Take up and read.” ~C.R. Wiley, author of The Household and the War for the Cosmos and In the House of Tom Bombadil

Dr. Glenn S. Sunshine is a former Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University and is a Senior Faculty Member of the Colson Fellows. Glenn has written about history, theology, and culture, online and on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of the books Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home and Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition. The former book received the 2006 Acton Institute Book Grant.

AUTHOR: Glenn S. Sunshine

PAGE COUNT: 264

SIZE: 5.5x8.5"

BINDING: Hardback w/Dust Jacket

ISBN 10: 1957905174

ISBN-13: 9781957905174

PUB. DATE: March 21, 2023

Customer Reviews

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J Lucero
32 Christians who changed their world

What a wonderful cloud of witnesses G. Sunshine has compiled. I have also enjoyed how G. Sunshine challenges the reader through out the book to examine themselves and what they are doing for Christ and His Kingdom.

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MrsKatie
Love and liked it

There are a few amazing chapters and a few boring chapters. Overall a good read but not a “must” read.

A quote in the last chapter that I appreciated, “With only a college degree in chemistry, M.M. began to teach himself theology… One key turning point in his life came when his wife died of cancer. Rather than becoming bitter, he learned at this point in a profound way the importance of the sovereignty of God. Whenever his youngest brother, M.M. Nina, faced struggles in his life, M.M. asked him, “Who is important? You or God?” Rather than focus on himself, M.M. saw God’s sovereignty as ultimately more important than his own difficulties and loss. “

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NatL

Morning read a louds got more exciting!

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David Young

32 Christians Who Changed Their World

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Jonathan
informative, easy read

Dr. Sunshine presents for us here some heroes of Christianity who will not have made it onto most of our radars. These stories will broaden your view of historic Christianity and challenge the believer to take seriously how he lives his faith.