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Article: Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America.
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- National Review
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- December 31, 1990
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Tongues of Fire: The Exploration of Protestantism in Latin America
LATIN AMERICA is converting to evangelical Protestantism. It is happening quietly among ordinary people, and without the patronage of princes. Yet the cumulatie effect is beginning to look like a second Reformation. This astonishing turn of events has passed almost unnoticed in the United States and Europe, where liberation theology has stolen the show. It is widely assumed that evangelical conversion in the great Catholic stronghold is marginal, disruptive, and faintly ridiculous.
Just why the commentating classes should be so out of date on this subject is a mystery. There is plenty ...