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Title: Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson by Daniel Mark Epstein ISBN: 0-15-600093-8 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: So good that I couldn't read another book for months
Comment: I read this book perhaps five or more years ago, and it remains one of the top two books that I have ever read, besides the Bible. As I passed it in the library, I deliberately avoided it, yet felt compelled to go back and check it out. I couldn't
put it down! I had stereotyped Aimee McPherson as simply a long-ago female evangelist, but Daniel Epstein compelled me to follow him as he
brought her out of the shadows of the past and into the light, as though she lived now. Her story became so compelling to me that by the time the book was finished, I felt that her story stayed with me for weeks and weeks. I even wondered what her point of view would have been as I encountered various things in life. I literally could not read another book for months, and I have never had that reaction to a book. I simply had no desire for another book. All I can compare it to would be akin to the aftermath of an excellent steak dinner!
Rating: 4
Summary: Very entertaining biography
Comment: If I could have given this 4 1/2 stars, I would have. Sister Aimee : The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson is an incredibly entertaining book about an amazing woman. Epstein beautifully describes Aimee and her early "tent revivals." Sometimes when reading it was almost as if I was actually in the tent, caught up in the sermon and everything going on.
One of the best things about this book is the way that the author handles the healings that Aimee performed. Many writers would view these with a skeptic eye but Epstein does not. While he does sometimes offer a psychological explanation for certain healings, he never comes out and says that the healings had nothing to do with God and that Aimee was a fraud. He also makes a very valid point, one that many have overlooked: It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to use actors and fakes to organize healing ceremonies the size of the ones that Aimee McPherson held.
My only complaint about this book is that near the end, the writing just seems to slow down. It's almost as if Epstein put all this passion into the first part, and started to lose it as the book drew to a close. But that really does not take too much away from it all (as I said before, if I could have given it 4 1/2 stars, I would have). This is a wonderful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Aimee You Never Knew...
Comment: For those who are quick to dismiss Aimee Semple Mcpherson as the prototypical religious huckster this book will give you much pause to think. Although Epstein doesn't attempt to minimize her mortal weaknesses and often a naivete which frequently had her at odds with the more worldly he also shows the tirelessly devoted humanitarian who pushed herself to the point of breakdown. The book helps one to appreciate the multifacted, sometimes subtle and sometimes dominating personality she possessed, a woman who can command admiration for her spiritual gifts despite the feet of clay.
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Title: Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister (Library of Religious Biography) by Edith L. Blumhofer ISBN: 0802801552 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Least of All Saints : The Story of Aimee Semple McPherson by Robert Bahr ISBN: 0595152899 Publisher: Backinprint.com Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America (Library of Religious Biography) by Lyle W. Dorsett, Nathan O. Hatch, Mark A. Noll ISBN: 080280151X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950 by Jenna Weissman Joselit ISBN: 0805070028 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Daughter of Destiny by Kathryn Kuhlman, Jamie Buckingham ISBN: 0882707841 Publisher: Bridge-Logos Publishers Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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