The Scandal Of The Evangelical Mind

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 323 pages
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Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467464628

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Winner of the Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (1995) “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.

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0802841805

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The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark A. Noll Pdf

Mark Noll has written a major indictment of American evangelicalism. Reading this book, one wonders if the evangelical movement has pandered so much to American culture and tried to be so popular only to lose not only it's mind but it's soul as well. For evangelical pastors and parishoners alike, this is a must read! --Robert Wuthnow.

Author : Carl Trueman
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802478153

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The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Carl Trueman Pdf

What is an evangelical . . . and has he lost his mind? Carl Trueman wrestles with those two provocative questions and concludes that modern evangelicals emphasize experience and activism at the expense of theology. Their minds go fuzzy as they downplay doctrine. The result is “a world in which everyone from Joel Osteen to Brian McLaren to John MacArthur may be called an evangelical.” Fifteen years ago in The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, historian Mark Noll warned that evangelical Christians had abandoned the intellectual aspects of their faith. Christians were neither prepared nor inclined to enter into intellectual debates, and had become culturally marginalized. Trueman argues that today “religious beliefs are more scandalous than they have been for many years”—but for different reasons than Noll foresaw. In fact, the real problem now is exactly the opposite of what Noll diagnosed: evangelicals don’t lack a mind, but rather an agreed upon evangel. Although known as gospel people, evangelicals no longer share any consensus on the gospel’s meaning. Provocative and persuasive, Trueman’s indictment of evangelicalism also suggests a better way forward for those theologically conservative Protestants famously known as evangelicals.

Author : Todd C. Ream,Jerry A. Pattengale,Christopher J. Devers
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830874088

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The State of the Evangelical Mind by Todd C. Ream,Jerry A. Pattengale,Christopher J. Devers Pdf

Two decades on from Mark Noll's Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, could we now be on the threshold of another crisis of intellectual maturity in Christianity? Or are the opportunities for faithful intellectual engagement and witness even greater now than before? These essays invite readers to a virtual "summit meeting" on the current state of the evangelical mind. The insights of national leaders in their fields will aid readers to reflect on the past contributions of evangelical institutions for the life of the mind as well as prospects for the future. Contributors include: Richard J. Mouw Mark A. Noll Jo Anne Lyon David C. Mahan and C. Donald Smedley Timothy Larsen Lauren Winner James K. A. Smith Mark Galli The State of the Evangelical Mind frames the resources needed for churches, universities, seminaries, and parachurch organizations to chart their course for the future, both separately and together, and provides readers an opportunity to participate in a timely conversation as they consider what institutional and individual role they might play. This is not a book to define or diagnose evangelicalism broadly, and there's no fear-mongering or demonizing here, but rather a call to attend to the evangelical mind and the role played by interlocking institutions in its intellectual formation and ongoing vitality. It will encourage—and challenge—those who want to be part of the solution in a time of need.

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802870766

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Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind by Mark A. Noll Pdf

In The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994) Mark Noll offered a forthrightly critical assessment of the state of evangelical thinking and scholarship. In this sequel more attuned to possibilities than problems, Noll updates his earlier assessment and charts a positive way forward for evangelical scholarship.Noll's Jesus Christ and the Life of the

Author : Owen Strachan
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310520801

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Awakening the Evangelical Mind by Owen Strachan Pdf

The first major study to draw upon unknown or neglected sources, as well as original interviews with figures like Billy Graham, Awakening the Evangelical Mind uniquely tells the engaging story of how evangelicalism developed as an intellectual movement in the middle of the 20th century. Beginning with the life of Harold Ockenga, Strachan shows how Ockenga brought together a small community of Christian scholars at Harvard University in the 1940s who agitated for a reloaded Christian intellect. With fresh insights based on original letters and correspondence, Strachan highlights key developments in the movement by examining the early years and humble beginnings of such future evangelical luminaries as George Eldon Ladd, Edward John Carnell, John Gerstner, Gleason Archer, Carl Henry, and Kenneth Kantzer.

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830866823

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A Free People's Suicide by Os Guinness Pdf

A Logos Book of the Year "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American republic could remain free forever. But how was this to be done, and are Americans doing it today? It is not enough for freedom to be won. It must also be sustained. Cultural observer Os Guinness argues that the American experiment in freedom is at risk. Summoning historical evidence on how democracies evolve, Guinness shows that contemporary views of freedom--most typically, a negative freedom from constraint-- are unsustainable because they undermine the conditions necessary for freedom to thrive. He calls us to reconsider the audacity of sustainable freedom and what it would take to restore it. "In the end," Guinness writes, "the ultimate threat to the American republic will be Americans. The problem is not wolves at the door but termites in the floor." The future of the republic depends on whether Americans will rise to the challenge of living up to America's unfulfilled potential for freedom, both for itself and for the world.

Author : Molly Worthen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190630515

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Apostles of Reason by Molly Worthen Pdf

In this imaginative history of modern American evangelicalism, Molly Worthen offers a dramatic rethinking of the evangelical movement, arguing that it has been defined not by shared doctrines or politics, but by the struggle to reconcile head knowledge and heart religion in an increasingly secular America. -- Back cover.

Author : Charles Colson,Nancy Pearcey
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414322421

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How Now Shall We Live? by Charles Colson,Nancy Pearcey Pdf

2000 Gold Medallion Award winner! Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that not only answers life's basic questions—Where did we come from, and who are we? What has gone wrong with the world? What can we do to fix it?—but also shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How Now Shall We Live? gives Christians the understanding, the confidence, and the tools to confront the world's bankrupt worldviews and to restore and redeem every aspect of contemporary culture: family, education, ethics, work, law, politics, science, art, music. This book will change every Christian who reads it. It will change the church in the new millennium.

Author : Carl Trueman
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802486271

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The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind SAMPLER by Carl Trueman Pdf

Enjoy these SAMPLE pages from The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind- What is an evangelical . . . and has he lost his mind? Carl Trueman wrestles with those two provocative questions and concludes that modern evangelicals emphasize experience and activism at the expense of theology. Their minds go fuzzy as they downplay doctrine. The result is "a world in which everyone from Joel Osteen to Brian McLaren to John MacArthur may be called an evangelical." Fifteen years ago in The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, historian Mark Noll warned that evangelical Christians had abandoned the intellectual aspects of their faith. Christians were neither prepared nor inclined to enter the intellectual debate, and had become marginalized. Today Trueman argues, "Religious beliefs are more scandalous than they have been for many years"-but for different reasons than Noll foresaw. In fact, the real problem now is exactly the opposite of what Noll diagnosed ̄evangelicals don't lack a mind, but rather an agreed upon evangel. Although known as gospel people, evangelicals no longer share any consensus on the gospel's meaning. Provocative and persuasive, Trueman's indictment of evangelicalism also suggests a better way forward for those theologically conservative Protestants once and formerly known as evangelicals.

Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190073312

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The Soul of the American University Revisited by George M. Marsden Pdf

"This volume ... is a revision and updating of The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994)"--Acknowledgments

Author : Ronald J. Sider
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725271807

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The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump by Ronald J. Sider Pdf

What should Christians think about Donald Trump? His policies, his style, his personal life? Thirty evangelical Christians (listed below) wrestle with these tough questions. They are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. They don't all agree, but they seek to let Christ be the Lord of their political views. They seek to apply biblical standards to difficult debates about our current political situation. Vast numbers of white evangelicals enthusiastically support Donald Trump. Do biblical standards on truth, justice, life, freedom, and personal integrity warrant or challenge that support? How does that support of President Trump affect the image of Christianity in the larger culture? Around the world? Many younger evangelicals today are rejecting evangelical Christianity, even Christianity itself. To what extent is that because of widespread evangelical support for Donald Trump? Don't read this book to find support for your views. Read it to be challenged--with facts, reason, and biblical principles. With contributions from: Michael W. Austin Randall Balmer Vicki Courtney Daniel Deitrich Samuel Escobar John Fea Irene Fowler Mark Galli J. Colin Harris Stephen R. Haynes Matt Henderson Christopher A. Hutchinson Bandy X. Lee David S. Lim David C. Ludden Ryan McAnnally-Linz Steven Meyer Napp Nazworth D. Zac Niringiye Christopher Pieper Reid Ribble Ronald J. Sider Edward G. Simmons James R. Skillen James W. Skillen Julia K. Stronks Chris Thurman Miroslav Volf Peter Wehner George Yancey

Author : Arthur Frank Holmes
Publisher : IVP Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015012895564

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The Making of a Christian Mind by Arthur Frank Holmes Pdf

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830838912

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The Rise of Evangelicalism by Mark A. Noll Pdf

This inaugural book in a series that charts the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last 300 years offers a multinational narrative of the origin, development and rapid diffusion of evangelical movements in their first two generations. Written by Mark A. Noll and now in paper.

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015050314890

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Turning Points by Mark A. Noll Pdf

Explores twelve pivotal events in the history of Christianity ranging from the fall of Jerusalem and the coronation of Charlemagne to the Edinburgh Missionary Conference.