# Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

## Metadata
- Author: [[Randall Balmer]]
- Full Title: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- liberal theologians such as Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch articulated what they called the Social Gospel, ([Location 467](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000TQ6F22&location=467))
- Although John Nelson Darby formulated this dispensational premillennialism, a whole network of individuals and institutions disseminated these notions. Dispensationalism caught on with such evangelical preachers as Moody, Reuben A. Torrey, A. J. Gordon, James M. Gray, and A. C. Dixon, among many others. Those leaders, in turn, organized prophecy conferences to advance these views.Schools such as Moody Bible Institute and the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola College) further promoted dispensa- tionalisin. ([Location 473](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000TQ6F22&location=473))
- Since the turn of the century, faith healers have abounded in America, and even in the nineteenth century various evangelicals propagated divine remedies for physical ailments. In the early 1830s, Sylvester Graham, a Presbyterian evangelist and temperance preacher, developed a cracker as a health and dietary aid; the Graham cracker is still popular today. Ellen Gould White, afflicted from childhood with various physical disorders, had several visions that revealed the secrets of good health. White, leader of the Seventh-day Adventists, founded the Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan, under the auspices of which John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes and other health foods. Mary BakerEddy believed that deliverance from physical affliction lay in the spiritual realm. Even the science of chiropractic, developed by D. D. Palmer in Davenport, Iowa, in the 18gos, grew to some extent out of religious impulses and convictions. ([Location 970](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000TQ6F22&location=970))
- I asked one older woman, a kindly person who stood behind one of the tables selling literature, about the old days and why attendance at Capstone had slackened so badly. "People just don't want to do God's will," she said. "They come for healing, but they don't want to follow the teachings of the Lord." I suspected that the real answer was a bitless spiritual. Frisby is a good example of an evangelical figure who gathers a following because of his charisma and his claims of healing power. At the same time, Frisby, who elevated himself to the status of prophet, was accountable to no one; because of the increasingly freakish twists in his theology, moreover, erstwhile followers became disenchanted and fell away. ([Location 1104](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000TQ6F22&location=1104))
- Evangelicals once referred directly to the Bible as the basis for their theology, but now, more often than not, the citation has been filtered through the conduit of the celebrity preacher: "As Dr. Swindoll says ... , or, `As Dr. Schuller says ... ," or, "Dr. Dobson believes that.... .. ([Location 3548](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000TQ6F22&location=3548))
- Worship surely must be something more than watching a preacher trying to project bonhomie and intimacy into a television camera. Shouldn't the Christian doctrine of the incarnation mean something? Jesus took on a fleshly form, after all; he didn't rent satellite time. The gospel itself was flesh and blood, not an image flickering across the television screen, the medium capable of such extraordinary deception. No, the gospel is tactile and visceral, incarnate, the very characteristics we celebrate in Holy Communion. Blessed are the present, Jesus seems to be saying throughout the New Testament. Blessed are the present, for they are here and not absent. ([Location 3553](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000TQ6F22&location=3553))
- it is only by gazing into the mirror of our own wretchedness that we begin to comprehend the magnificence of grace. ([Location 3570](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000TQ6F22&location=3570))