The History of The Salvation Army Volume Nine 1995-2015

Constantly growing in numerical strength and in its geographic presence, The Salvation Army has continued to meet human need on every continent while also functioning as a worldwide evangelical church.

This ninth volume of its official history tells of countless initiatives to reach the needy, of bold responses to natural and other disasters, and of the Christian motivation at the heart of every Salvationist endeavour.

Each chapter carries the reader through another year of outreach undertaken by ordinary but deeply committed people. They do not always meet with unmitigated success, but they never give up!

General Shaw Clifton, LLB, BD, PhD, AKC was elected world leader of The Salvation Army in 2006 and entered retirement in 2011. In this, his eleventh book, he paints a graphic picture of the global ministry of the Army from 1995 to 2015. It is the ninth volume of the official history of the religious body founded in 1865 by William and Catherine Booth.

In his review, Commissioner Kenneth G. Hodder, Territorial Commander of Salvation Army work in the USA Western Territory, writes: 'General Shaw Clifton's magisterial History of The Salvation Army Volume Nine is ... powerful, pointed and insightful. In addition to detailing the innumerable occasions when Army ministry alleviated suffering or won men and women to Christ, he refers to situations in which the Army's work did not succeed, or perhaps even took a step backwards. Mistakes are not ignored.

'He has also included extensive material on internal matters ... by laying greater stress on efforts to build bridges of understanding with governments, other churches, different faith traditions, and groups that would normally be considered antagonistic to the Army's aims, this volume dramatically expands the horizons for Salvation Army history.

'General Clifton ... chose to face the historical record as it is, and the resulting narrative successfully navigates past the Scylla and Charybdis of historical writing, hagiography and polemic.'

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