Looks at important issues, events, movements, sects, and religious leaders in the history of American Christianity

Product Description: "The Search for Christian America" explores key questions raised by the movement asserting the Christian heritage of the U.S. and calling for its recovery. Through careful historical and contemporary analysis, the authors address such issues as: how much Christian action is required to make a whole society Christian; Puritan New England as case study; Christian principles vs...read more

Product Description: Historian Mark Noll traces evangelicalism from its nineteenth-century roots. He applies lessons learned in the milieu of Great Britain and North America to answer the question: Have evangelicals grown to mature confidence in their views of God and Scripture so they may stand-alone if they must-between faith and higher critical skepticism? "This is nuts-and-bolts history at its best...read more

Gathers sermons, letters, essays, speeches, and selections from journals, memoirs, and novels that deal with piety and spiritual experience

Product Description: A new edition of The Way of Life and excerpts from other writings by this 19th-century leader of Presbyterian theological education.

Examines the interaction of religion and politics throughout American history, including during the drafting of the Constitution and the battle against slavery, and urges christians to become more politically involved

Product Description: Widely viewed during the Revolutionary period as a champion of both republicanism and evangelical Calvinism, the College of New Jersey nonetheless experienced great inner turmoil as its leaders tried to support the stability of the new nation by integrating sound principles of science and faith...read more

How do religion and politics interact in America? Why is it that at certain periods in American history, religious and political thought have followed a parallel course while at other times they have moved in entirely different directions? To what extent have minority perspectives challenged the majority position on the religious and political issues that impinge on each other? These are among the many important and fascinating questions examined in this book, the first thorough historical survey of the multi-layered connections between religion and politics in the United States. This unique collection presents previously unpublished essays by seventeen of America's leading historians and social scientists, including John Murrin, Harry Stout, John F. Wilson, Daniel Walker Howe, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Robert Swierenga, Martin Marty, Robert Wuthnow, and George Marsden. Together, these distinguished contributors provide comprehensive coverage of the historical interaction between religion and politics in America, from the colonial and Revolutionary periods, with intense commitments to and disagreements over religion, through the evangelical Protestant ascendency that marked the nineteenth century, to the growing pluralism and heightened antagonism between liberal and conservative factions that typify our own era.

Product Description: "Both by his choice of confessions and by his judicious and scholarly introductions, Mark Noll has made [the major Reformation confessions and catechisms] available in a form that is sure to deepen and enlighten doctrinal discussion and confessional awareness and that will therefore contribute to solidly evangelical and hence soundly ecumenical theology...read more

Product Description: From the lively severities of the 17th-century Pilgrims and Puritans to the ebullience of the televanglism age, the Christian experience in North America is rich and varied. Noll covers it all in this superb narrative survey. Tracing the growth of Christian belief and institutions and their interactions with culture in the U...read more

Product Description: This anthology brings together essays by American, Canadian and British scholars to provide an overview of English-speaking evangelical religion. Each essay contains comparative evaluations of themes, movements or controversies common to more than one English-speaking region.

Product Description: The first comparative history of one of the most dynamic popular religious movements in recent times, Evangelicalism offers a uniquely comprehensive survey of this complex phenomenon from its emergence in the mid-eighteenth century to the present...read more

Product Description: 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 evangelicalisms most respected historians. Unsparing in his judgment, Mark Noll ask why the largest single group of religious Americans, who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence, have contributed so liutle to rigorous intellectual scholarship in North America...read more

A series of lectures considering how Christians should involve themselves politically as Christians

Product Description: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), mathematician, physicist, inventor, and religious thinker was a man at odds with his time. The optimism of the Enlightenment and the belief among philosophers and scientists that the universe was both discoverable and rational made them feel invincible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mark Noll is one of the evangelical world's most prominent historians. But he is a poet as well, as evidenced by his small volume of verse entitled Seasons of Grace in which he celebrates life, family, music, nature, and other miscellaneous themes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From classic hymns to contemporary culture, this book explores evangelical Christianity at its best. Eight of today's most noted thinkers here examine the nature of evangelical Christianity and explore its ongoing role in contemporary culture...read more

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Discusses the origins of Protestantism, the diversity of Protestant churches in the United States, and the role of Protestants in American life from colonial times to the present. (view table of contents)

Product Description: More Money, More Ministry explores the role that money has played in the growth of North American evangelicalism over the last 150 years - including its uneasy, sometimes ambivalent place in evangelical consciousness. Experts on the contemporary religious scene discuss how evangelicals have recently thought about, used, and raised money, looking in particular at Christian nonprofit organizations, fund-raising strategies, advertising and consumerism, evangelical higher education, financial scandals, and the connection between money and theology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mark Noll describes and interprets American Evangelical Christianity, utilising research by theologians, sociologists and political scientists, as well as the author's own historical interests, to explain the position Evangelicalism now occupies at the beginning of the new century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)