Against the Gates of Hell
The Life & Times of Henry Perry, A Christian Missionary in a Moslem World
by Gordon Severance and Diana Severance
Foreword by Dr. Timothy F. George
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
500 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 1.00 in
- Paperback
- 9781620325254
- Published: October 2012
$60.00 / £53.00 / AU$84.00
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Gordon B. Severance (1921-2013) was emeritus professor of business law from California State University at Los Angeles and the University of Nevada, Reno. He received an MA in economics from Stanford University, and a PhD in economics and JD from the University of Southern California. In 1988-89, as Fulbright Scholar, he taught constitutional law at Makerere University in Uganda, where he was also an adviser to the Constitution revision commission. A member of the California and federal bar, Gordon has practiced law for fifty years. In 1999, Gordon was executive producer of an award-winning full-length dramatic film, Candle in the Dark, a biography of William Carey, the nineteenth-century missionary to India. He was a founder of Vets with a Mission (www.vwam.com) and Media4Kids (http://m4ki.org).
Diana L. Severance received her PhD in history from Rice University. She is Director of the Dunham Bible Museum at Houston Baptist University. She was a major contributor to Faith of Gods and Generals and is the author of Feminine Threads: Women in the Tapestry of Christian History and A Cord of Three Strands:Three Centuries of Chrsitian Love Letters.
"A delightfully written history of one of America's great missionaries and champions of social justice (on behalf of persecuted Armenians) at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century."
--Douglas A. Sweeney, Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought and Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
". . . very well written and quite engaging. . . The weaving of the story of Dr. Henry Perry and Ottoman/Armenian history and the massacres and genocide is almost like a modern TV or movie script and I believe it will engage readers. . ."
--Richard Hovannisian, Armenian Educational Foundation Professor of Modern Armenian History, UCLA
"Congratulations on a magnificent piece of work so carefully researched, attentive to human interest detail, contextually rich, and spiritually riveting. What a challenge to know that people like Henry Perry and his associates walked the face of the earth."
--Ken Curtis, President, Christian History Institute
"Many of the issues Perry struggled with in his day have strangely become contemporary again in our time. Terrorism, ethnic cleansing, economic upheaval, the boiling pot of Middle Eastern politics, the civilizational clash between Christendom and Islam- the same ferment was stirring in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. We cannot well understand our own times without looking closely at those of Henry Perry. "
--Timothy George, Dean of Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, and Executive Editor of Christianity Today
"I appreciate your wonderful scholarship . . . and your marvelous historical insights, which are so pertinent at this particular moment in history."
--Chuck Colson, winner of The Templeton Prize and founder of Prison Fellowship
"A truly superb book, well written, captivating, amply footnoted, profoundly disturbing, yet enjoyable and interesting. A story that needed to be told."
--Tom Hesse, Manager, KNIS Pilgrim Radio