Dieser progressive evangelikale christliche Gelehrte beschäftigt sich mit Geschichte und untersucht intellektuelle Tendenzen innerhalb der amerikanischen evangelikalen Bewegung. Seine Arbeit zeichnet sich durch tiefgründige Reflexionen über das Verhältnis von Glauben und Vernunft aus und deckt oft die Spannungen und Herausforderungen auf, denen sich der moderne Evangelikalismus gegenübersieht. Sein prosaischer Stil ist präzise und anregend, was ihn zu einer bedeutenden Stimme auf seinem Gebiet macht.
The book explores the Civil War's impact on American religious thought, focusing on diverse perspectives regarding slavery and race from both white and Black Americans, as well as commentary from European and Canadian Christians. It highlights the shared belief in the Bible's authority among Christians, while revealing how differing interpretations of Scripture regarding slavery ignited a significant theological crisis.
The Search for a Christian Enlightenment in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith
The book delves into the complex history of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, during the Revolutionary period, highlighting its struggle to balance republicanism with evangelical Calvinism. Focusing on the presidencies of John Witherspoon, Samuel Stanhope Smith, and Ashbel Green, it explores student rebellions and the eventual creation of a separate Presbyterian seminary. The narrative intertwines cultural and intellectual developments of the early republic, emphasizing the influence of Scottish common sense philosophy on education and social stability.
The correspondence between C.S. Lewis and Father Giovanni Calabria in a language that they both knew, Latin. The letters show Lewis's strong devotional side, and discuss such topics as Christian unity, modern European history, liturgical worship, and general ethical behavior
A best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years "An excellent study that will help historians appreciate the importance of Christianity in the history of the United States and Canada." - The Journal of American History "Scholars and general readers alike will gain unique insights into the multifaceted character of Christianity in its New World environment. Nothing short of brilliant." - Harry S. Stout, Yale University "A new standard for textbooks on the history of North American Christianity." - James Turner, University of Notre Dame Mark Noll's A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada has been firmly established as the standard text on the Christian experience in North America. Now Noll has thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded his classic text to incorporate new materials and important themes, events, leaders, and changes of the last thirty years. Once again readers will benefit from his insights on the United States and Canada in this superb narrative survey of Christian churches, institutions, and cultural engagements from the colonial period through 2018.
This new edition of a bestselling textbook isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity.
America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture.
An illuminating Look at who evangelicals are, how evangelicalism has changed over time, and How Evangelicalism Continues to Develop in surprising ways Book jacket.
A comprehensive history of worldwide evangelicalism in the later 19th century.
Religion has been a powerful political force throughout American history. When race enters the mix the results have been some of our greatest triumphs as a nation - and some of our most shameful failures. This book traces the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with race.
Winner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award "The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism's most respected historians. Unsparing in his indictment, Mark Noll asks why the largest single group of religious Americans--who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence--have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship. While nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have so many evangelicals failed to sustain a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of "high" culture? Over twenty-five years since its original publication, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind has turned out to be prescient and perennially relevant. In a new preface, Noll lays out his ongoing personal frustrations with this situation, and in a new afterword he assesses the state of the scandal--showing how white evangelicals' embrace of Trumpism, their deepening distrust of science, and their frequent forays into conspiratorial thinking have coexisted with surprisingly robust scholarship from many with strong evangelical connections.