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- ↑ The Alpha Enterprise: Evangelism in a Post-Christian Era, Ashgate Publishing, October 2004, ISBN 0-7546-5036-7, ISBN 978-0-7546-5036-2
- ↑ Christian Millenarianism: From the Early Church to Waco, Indiana University Press, 1 July 2001, ISBN 0-253-21491-2, ISBN 978-0-253-21491-1
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