Table of Contents

Abbreviations 
Preface 
1. The Invasion of the Sects in Latin America 
Typologies, Growth Rates, and Variation by Country 
Disaster Evangelism 
So Close to God and the United States 
The Struggle within Protestantism 
2. Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the Catholic Church 
The Catholic Reformation in Latin America 
The Passing of Ecumenism 
Explaining Losses to Protestantism 
The Quandaries of Clericalism and Activism 
Counter-Reformation 
3· From Doomsday to Dominion in North American Evangelicalism 
The Decline of Liberal Protestantism 
Evangelical Organization 
Evangelical Theology 
Evangelical Politics 
The Struggle for the NAE and the Southern Baptists 
Nuclear Dispensationalism 
Reconstruction and the Latter Rain 
The Restoration Revival 
Dominion Theology 
The Religious Right and World Mission 
4· The Evangelical Mission Movement 
Soldiers of Christ 
The Lausanne Covenant 
Mission Think Tanks, Church Growth, Signs and Wonders 
Closed Countries 
Hidden Peoples 
Anthropology and Ethnotheology 
Christ, Inc. 
Church versus Parachurch 
5· The Evangelical Awakening in Latin America 
Adventists, Mormons, Witnesses 
The Assemblies of God in Brazil 
Pentecostalism as Power Encounter 
Pentecostalism as Confonnity and Protest 
Evangelism in Depth 
The Billy Graham of Latin America 
Church Planting 
Political Polarization 
The Latin American Theological Fraternity 
CONE LA 
6. The Religious Right Comes to Latin America 
Liberation Theology 
Hearings in Washington 
Cuba and Grenada 1
Marching as to War 
Hanging Back from War 
Pressure from the Right 
Campus Crusade for Christ 
The Campaign to Save El Salvador 
The Witch Hunt in Costa Rica 
Contextualization 
Refonnation in the Refonnation 
7· The New Jerusalem of the Americas 
Gospel Outreach 
Could the Lord Have Something in Store for Brother Efrain? 
The International Love Lift 
Church, Army, and Guerrilla in the Ixil Triangle 
Pastor Nicolas 
Providing an Alternative 
Let the Dead Bury the Dead 
The Struggle for Social Responsibility 
When the Saints Come Marching In 
8. Evangelicals in the Sandinista-Contra War 
The Sandinista-Evangelical Courtship 
The Miskitos 
The Taking of the Temples 
The Popular Church 
Patriotic Military Service 
The Battle of the Pastors 
The Propaganda War 
Helping the Freedom Fighters 
Religious Persecution in Nicaragua? 
State of Emergency 
9· World Vision in Ecuador 
The Protestant Boom in Chimborazo 
The Bishop of the Indians, Part I 
Christian Violence 
The Development of World Vision 
The Scandals in Honduras 
The Scandals in Imbabura 
The Bishop of the Indians, Part II 
Building up the Local Church 
A Revolutionary Outlet 
From Evangelism to Electoral Politics 
Pilahufn 
10. Reinterpreting the Invasion of the Sects as an Evangelical Awakening 
Contrasting Visions of Reformation 
Why Liberation Theology May Not Work 
Pentecostalism as a Basis for Social Reformation 
Evangelism and Oliver North 
Reaping the Harvest
Appendix 1. Estimates of Protestant Representation in Latin America and the Caribbean 
Appendix 2. Estimate of Evangelical Population in Latin America and the Caribbean 
Appendix 3· Estimate of Evangelical Growth Factors in Latin America from 1960 to 1985, with Extrapolation to 2010 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index