The Rise of the Cults

Branson Hopkins was born in England in 1938.  At a young age he became attracted to the small religious group known as the Christadelphians.  He became a speaker and apologist for this group in much of Britain.  In 1973 Branson and his wife and family moved to Zambia and then later to New Zealand.  It was whilst in Auckland that Branson had an experience with God which changed his life.  After almost two decades of committed involvement in the Christadelphians, he came to recognise the cause of the emotional discomfort and spiritual confusion which this group’s teaching had brought into his life.  Branson now has the assurance of Eternal Life which Jesus Christ promises through the Bible.

In this third book of this trilogy, Branson reveals the historic and personal links between the leaders of many of the cult groups which sprang up simultaneously during the same times and places as the Great American Spiritual Revival around the mid-1800s, spearheaded by Evangelist Charles Finney.