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Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UOM:39076000487889
Essays that provide a history of the Christian church in the United States with biographical information on church leaders, the different organized churches, and popular Christian movements.
Author : Robin Keeley
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004902453
Author : Robin Keeley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:827733109
Author : Tim Dowley
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCSC:32106000165461
God and history. God, time and history / John Briggs -- Beginnings 1-325. The church expands / W. Ward Gasque ; What the first Christians believed / David F. Wright -- Acceptance and conquest 325-600. Constantine and the Christian empire / Richard Todd ; Councils and creeds / David Wright ; The fall of the Roman empire / Richard Todd ; Christian ascetics and monks / Michael Smith -- A Christian society 600-1500. The West in crisis / Harry Rosenberg ; The Eastern church / Harlie Gallatin ; Flowering : the Western church / Robert Clouse ; An age of unrest / Ronald Finucane -- Reform 1500-1650. Seeds of renewal / Philip McNair ; Reform / James Atkinson ; Rome responds / Robert Linder -- Reason, revival and revolution 1650-1789. Awakening / A. Skevington Wood ; Expansion worldwide / James De Jong ; Reason and unreason / Colin Brown -- Cities and empires 1789-1914. Europe in revolt / Wayne Detzler ; The first industrial nation / John Briggs ; The ascent of man / Colin Brown ; Outposts of empire / Andrew Walls -- Towards 2000. An age of ideology / Richard Pierard ; An age of anxiety / Anthony Thiselton ; An age of liberation / C. René Padilla.
Author : Colin Gilbert Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : OCLC:1034662907
Author : Roland Cap Ehlke
Publisher : New Reformation Publications
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781945978234
When it comes to analyzing today's culture, people talk about politics, economics, and even morals. Like a Pelting Rain: The Making of the Modern Mind goes deeper and looks at the spiritual condition of Western civilization. How we arrived at where we are is the long and complex interplay of theology and culture. Understanding the trends of the times does not necessitate accepting them. God calls upon Christians to contend for the faith. The Holy Spirit is still at work, and the Gospel remains the power of God for the salvation of all who believe!
Author : G. Wright Doyle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621897804
Was America founded as a "Christian" nation? What role has the Christian faith of many of its leaders played in the course of its history? How has Christianity affected American culture and society? This trenchant critique of the role of Christianity in American history highlights both the ways in which Christians have made many valuable contributions as "salt and light," and how they have caused a great deal of damage by trying to be "savior and lord." Believers in Christ have built one of the most "Christianized" countries in the world, with benefits for millions. They have also nurtured messianic aspirations that have spawned disasters for themselves and other countries. Generous in praise for dedicated believers who have reflected the character of Christ, the book is also unsparing in criticism of Christians who have, sometimes with the best intentions, failed to act wisely. In short, the reader will be encouraged by the many "triumphs" of Christianity in America, and sobered by its "tragedy."
Author : Gary DeMar
Publisher : American Vision
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780915815715
"From the founding of the colonies to the declaration of the Supreme Court, America's heritage is built upon the principles of the Christian religion. And yet the secularists are dismantling this foundation brick by brick, attempting to deny the very core of our national life. Gary DeMar presents well-documented facts which will change your perspective about what it means to be a Christian in America; the truth about America's Christian past as it relates to supreme court justices, and presidents; the Christian character of colonial charters, state constitutions, and the US Constitution; the Christian foundation of colleges, the Christian character of Washington, D.C.; the origin of Thanksgiving and so much more."--Publisher's description
Author : Greg Cootsona
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351654838
Science and religion represent two powerful forces that continue to influence the American cultural landscape. Negotiating Science and Religion in America sketches an intellectual-cultural history from the Puritans to the twenty-first century, focusing on the sometimes turbulent relationship between the two. Using the past as a guide for what is happening today, this volume engages research from key scholars and the author’s work on emerging adults’ attitudes in order to map out the contours of the future for this exciting, and sometimes controversial, field. The book discusses the relationship between religion and science in the following important historical periods: from 1687 to the American Revolution the revolutionary period to 1859 after Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species 1870–1925: the rise of religious modernism and pluralism to the Scopes Trial from Scopes to 1966 the present: 1966 to 2000 the third millennium: the voices of Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Francis Collins the future and its contours. This is the ideal volume for any student or scholar seeking to understand the relationship between religion and science in society today.
Author : Earle E. Cairns
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310208129
Thsi respected, well-known, comprehensive resource has established itself as a classic on church history. Cairns looks for the glory of God in the total process, conveying the issues that have divided the church and also affirming that the church of Jesus Christ is basically one.
Author : Darren Dochuk,Thomas S. Kidd,Kurt W. Peterson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268158552
No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S. intellectual, cultural, and religious history from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. This collection of essays uses the career of George M. Marsden and the remarkable breadth of his scholarship to measure current trends in the historical study of American evangelical Protestantism and to encourage fresh scholarly investigation of this faith tradition as it has developed between the eighteenth century and the present. Moving through five sections, each centered around one of Marsden’s major books and the time period it represents, the volume explores different methodologies and approaches to the history of evangelicalism and American religion. Besides assessing Marsden’s illustrious works on their own terms, this collection’s contributors isolate several key themes as deserving of fresh, rigorous, and extensive examination. Through their close investigation of these particular themes, they expand the range of characters and communities, issues and ideas, and contingencies that can and should be accounted for in our historical texts. Marsden’s timeless scholarship thus serves as a launchpad for new directions in our rendering of the American religious past.
Author : Richard Kyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351321662
Most forms of religion are best understood in the con- text of their relationship with the surrounding culture. This may be particularly true in the United States. Certainly immigrant Catholicism became Americanized; mainstream Protestantism accommodated itself to the modern world; and Reform Judaism is at home in American society. In Evangelicalism, Richard Kyle explores paradoxical adjustments and transformations in the relationship between conservative Protestant Evangelicalism and contemporary American culture. Evangelicals have resisted many aspects of the modern world, but Kyle focuses on what he considers their romance with popular culture. Kyle sees this as an Americanized Christianity rather than a Christian America, but the two are so intertwined that it is difficult to discern the difference between them. Instead, in what has become a vicious self-serving cycle, Evangelicals have baptized and sanctified secular culture in order to be considered culturally relevant, thus increasing their numbers and success within abundantly populous and populist-driven American society. In doing so, Evangelicalism has become a middle-class movement, one that dominates America's culture, and unabashedly populist. Many Evangelicals view America as God's chosen nation, thus sanctifying American culture, consumerism, and middle-class values. Kyle believes Evangelicals have served themselves well in consciously and deliberately adjusting their faith to popular culture. Yet he also thinks Evangelicals may have compromised themselves and their future in the process, so heavily borrowing from the popular culture that in many respects the Evangelical subculture has become secularism with a light gilding of Christianity. If so, he asks, can Evangelicalism survive its own popularity and reaffirm its religious origins, or will it assimilate and be absorbed into what was once known as the Great American Melting Pot of religions and cultures? Will the Gospel of the American dream ultimately engulf and destroy the Gospel of Evangelical success in America? This thoughtful and thought-provoking volume will interest anyone concerned with the modern-day success of the Evangelical movement in America and the aspirations and fate of its faithful.
Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467451390
While Americans still profess to be one of the most religious people in the industrialized world, many aspects of American culture have long been secular and materialistic. That is just one of the many paradoxes, contradictions, and surprises in the relationship between Christianity and American culture. In this book George Marsden, a leading historian of American Christianity and award-winning author, tells the story of that relationship in a concise and thought-provoking way. Surveying the history of religion and American culture from the days of the earliest European settlers right up through the elections of 2016, Marsden offers the kind of historically and religiously informed scholarship that has made him one of the nation’s most respected and decorated historians. Students in the classroom and history readers of all ages will benefit from engaging with the story Marsden tells.
Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0802806511
Author Mark Noll presents the unfolding drama of American Christianity with accuracy and skill, from the first European settlements to ecumenism in the late 20th Century. This work has become a standard in the field of North American religious history.
Author : Susan Friend Harding
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691190464
National polls show that approximately 50 million adult Americans are born-again Christians. Yet most Americans see their culture as secular, and the United States is viewed around the world as a secular nation. Further, intellectuals and journalists often portray born-again Christians, despite their numbers, as outsiders who endanger public life. But is American culture really so neatly split between the religious and the secular? Is America as "modern" and is born-again Christian religious belief as "pre-modern" as many think? In the 1980s, born-again Christians burst into the political arena with stunning force. Gone was the image of "old-fashioned" fundamentalism and its anti-worldly, separatist philosophy. Under the leadership of the Reverend Jerry Falwell and allied preachers, millions broke taboos in place since the Scopes trial constraining their interaction with the public world. They claimed new cultural territory and refashioned themselves in the public arena. Here was a dynamic body of activists with an evangelical vision of social justice, organized under the rubric of the "Moral Majority." Susan Harding, a cultural anthropologist, set out in the 1980s to understand the significance of this new cultural movement. The result, this long-awaited book, presents the most original and thorough examination of Christian fundamentalism to date. Falwell and his co-pastors were the pivotal figures in the movement. It is on them that Harding focuses, and, in particular, their use of the Bible's language. She argues that this language is the medium through which born-again Christians, individual and collective, come to understand themselves as Christians. And it is inside this language that much of the born-again movement took place. Preachers like Falwell command a Bible-based poetics of great complexity, variety, creativity, and force, and, with it, attempt to mold their churches into living testaments of the Bible. Harding focuses on the words--sermons, speeches, books, audiotapes, and television broadcasts--of individual preachers, particularly Falwell, as they rewrote their Bible-based tradition to include, rather than exclude, intense worldly engagement. As a result of these efforts, born-again Christians recast themselves as a people not separated from but engaged in making history. The Book of Jerry Falwell is a fascinating work of cultural analysis, a rare account that takes fundamentalist Christianity on its own terms and deepens our understanding of both religion and the modern world.
