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Kathleen Smith Kutolowski, Associate Professor and Chair Emerita, Department of History, SUNY Brockport –
Dr. Greg Van Dussen’s newest work combines a pastor’s grasp of the powerful spirituality of camp meetings with a historian’s understanding of the historical times and needs–then and now. Mining copious primary sources that range across time, space, culture, and gender, he probes the dynamics fueling the Wesleyan and Wesleyan Holiness movement in North America and its transformative power. Readers of Van Dussen’s Circuit Riders on the Road to Glory will find this a welcome companion piece. And if you think you already know camp meetings, you are in for some surprises.
Lester Ruth, Duke University Divinity School –
Van Dussen’s book is a useful reminder of the critical place camp meetings held in the heyday of 19th century American Methodism. If scriptural salvation was the “engine that drove the train” of past Methodism, oftentimes camp meetings were the shape of the train itself! This book is filled with the words and testimonies of countless numbers of past Methodists who enjoyed the power of early camp meetings.
Prof. W. Bruce Leslie, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor –
In Power Ahead, Rev. Van Dussen transports us into the world, foreign to many of us, of camp meetings past and present. His carefully researched descriptions of these remarkable gatherings range widely across history from early Presbyterian Scotland to the present, and demographically to include Native Americans and African Americans. His narrative poignantly recounts this unique phenomenon and reminds us of the fundamental role evangelical Protestantism played, and continues to play, in shaping American and Canadian cultures.
Rev. Dr. David Cooke, Pastor, Findley Lake United Methodist Church; Board Member, The Camp at Findle –
Many of us have experienced the blessing of getting away from the busyness of daily life to gather with God’s people at places we regard as holy ground. Greg provides an inspirational account of these sacred places where God has moved throughout the centuries to forgive, heal, save, and transform. This book will inform and inspire its readers to reflect upon God’s grace and power available to all who come together to seek and worship him on the holy ground where camp meetings take place.