In the 1960s, as in the period just before the Second Awakening, Americans felt themselves threatened by foreign currents of revolution lapping at their doors and also by the barbarous frontier of a wildly mutating youth culture. Christian families everywhere agonized as they saw their children ripped away by the gravitational field of a subversive Sodom developing within American culture. When voices within the church announced in the late 1960s that God was dead, many Christians must have duplicated the reaction of Hezekiah to the Assyrian challenge in 2 Kings 18, laying the matter before
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