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Now in its fourth edition, this bestselling textbook (over 125,000
copies sold) isolates key events that provide a framework for
understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents
Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a Western
experience. This popular textbook is organized around 14 key
moments in church history, providing contemporary Christians with a
fuller understanding of God as he has revealed his purpose through
the centuries. The new edition includes a new preface, updates
throughout the book, revised "further readings" for each chapter,
new sidebar content, and study questions. It also more thoroughly
highlights the importance of women in Christian history and the
impact of world Christianity. Turning Points is well suited to
introductory courses on the history of Christianity as well as
study groups in churches. Additional resources for instructors are
available through Textbook eSources.
"The scandal of the evangelical mind, " says historian Mark Noll,
"is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." This critical
yet constructive book explains the decline of evangelical thought
in North America and seeks to find, within evangelicalism itself,
resources for turning the situation around. According to Noll,
evangelical Protestants make up the largest single group of
religious Americans; they also enjoy increasing wealth, status
political influence, and educational achievement. Yet, despite its
size and considerable intellectual potential, evangelical
Protestantism makes only a slight contribution to first-order
public discourse in North America: it neither sponsors a single
research university, nor supports a single periodical devoted to
in-depth interaction with modern culture, nor cultivates attitudes
that treat the worlds of science, the arts, politics, and social
analysis with the seriousness that God intends. The Scandal of the
Evangelical Mind explains how this situation developed by tracing
the history of evangelical thinking in America. Noll's analysis
shows how Protestants successfully aligned themselves with national
ideals and with the particular expressions of an American
Enlightenment in the decades before the Civil War; explains how
fundamentalists at the start of the twentieth century preserved
essential elements of the faith, but only by grievously damaging
the life of the mind; gives specific attention to evangelical
thought on politics and science; and discusses what some have
called an "evangelical intellectual renaissance" in recent decades
and shows why it is more apparent than real. Written to encourage
reform as well as to inform, this book endswith an outline of some
preliminary steps by which evangelicals might yet come to love the
Lord more thoroughly with the mind.
America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American
national history even as that history influenced the use of
Scripture. It explores the rise of a strongly Protestant Bible
civilization in the early United States that was then fractured by
debates over slavery, contested by growing numbers of
non-Protestant Americans (Catholics, Jews, agnostics), and torn
apart by the Civil War. This first comprehensive history of the
Bible in America explains why Tom Paine's anti-biblical tract The
Age of Reason (1794) precipitated such dramatic effects, how
innovations in printing by the American Bible Society created the
nation's publishing industry, why Nat Turner's slave rebellion of
1831 and the bitter election of 1844 marked turning points in the
nation's engagement with Scripture, and why Theodore Roosevelt and
Woodrow Wilson were so eager to commemorate the 300th anniversary
of the King James Version of the Bible. Noll's magisterial work
highlights not only the centrality of the Bible for the nation's
most influential religious figures (Methodist Francis Asbury,
Richard Allen of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Catholic
Bishop Francis Kenrick, Jewish scholar Solomon Schechter, agnostic
Robert Ingersoll), but also why it was important for presidents
like Abraham Lincoln; notable American women like Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard; dedicated
campaigners for civil rights like Frederick Douglass and Francis
Grimke; lesser-known figures like Black authors Maria Stewart and
Harriet Jacobs; and a host of others of high estate and low. The
book also illustrates how the more religiously plural period from
Reconstruction to the early twentieth century saw Scripture become
a much more fragmented, though still significant, force in American
culture, particularly as a source of hope and moral authority for
Americans on both sides of the battle over white supremacy-both for
those hoping to fight it, and for others seeking to justify it.
"Blending a commanding knowledge of the fi eld with a rare gift for
synthesis and lucid expression, Mark Noll brings to life what it
meant for Christians in a diff erent time and place to wrestle with
the political implications of their faith." Nathan O. Hatch,
University of Notre Dame "His study . . . should provoke us afresh
to a reexamination of the interpretation of belief and culture in
our own time." David F. Wells, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
When Christians understand the religious history of the United
States, with its close connection to political history, they are
better prepared to make knowledgable contributions to the current
discussion of national values, priorities and purposes. Christians
in the American Revolution begins with a brief survey of the
political and religious background of the pre-Revolutionary years.
Th e author then examines the influence of various religious
convictions on the movement for independence and, conversely, the
eff ect of the Revolution on colonial church bodies and their
understanding of Christian truth. Colonial Christians responded in
four major ways to the Revolution: they supported complete freedom
in politics and religion; they advocated social and political
reform; they called for submission to English authority; and they
argued against involvement of Christians in the war eff ort.
Whether Patriot, Reformer, Loyalist or Pacifi st, American
Christian colonials infl uenced not only the fledgling nation, but
the development of religious thought to the present. This revised
edition includes a new bibliographic essay detailing contributions
to this field since the first edition was published in 1977. MARK
A. NOLL (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is McManis Professor of
Christian Th ought at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. In
recent years he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity
School, University of Chicago Divinity School, Westminster Th
eological Seminary and Regent College (Vancouver, British
Columbia). A widely recognized expert in American religious
history, he has written numerous books, including America's God,
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and A History of Christianity
in the United States and Canada.
In this popular introduction to church history, now in its third
edition, Mark Noll isolates key events that provide a framework for
understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents
Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a Western
experience.
Now organized around fourteen key moments in church history, this
well-received text provides contemporary Christians with a fuller
understanding of God as he has revealed his purpose through the
centuries. This new edition includes a new preface; updates
throughout the book; revised "further readings" for each chapter;
and two new chapters, including one spotlighting Vatican II and
Lausanne as turning points of the recent past.
Students in academic settings and church adult education contexts
will benefit from this one-semester survey of Christian history.
Winner of a Christianity Today 2005 Book Award The word evangelical
is widely used and widely misunderstood. Where did evangelicals
come from? What motivated them? How did their influence become so
widespread throughout the world during the eighteenth century? In
this paper edition of this inaugural book in a series that charts
the course of English-speaking evangelicalism over the last 300
years, Mark Noll offers a multinational narrative of the origin,
development and rapid diffusion of evangelical movements in their
first two generations. Theology, hymnody, gender, warfare, politics
and science are all taken into consideration. But the focus is on
the landmark individuals, events and organizations that shaped the
story of the beginnings of this vibrant Christian movement. The
revivals in Britain and North America in the mid-eighteenth century
proved to be foundational in the development of the movement, its
ethos, beliefs and subsequent direction. In these revivals, the
core commitments of evangelicals were formed that continue to this
day. In this volume you will find the fascinating story of their
formation, their strengths and their weaknesses, but always their
dynamism.
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." - Douglas Jacobsen, Fides et Historia "This is not only an
outstanding study of evangelical biblical scholarship, it is the
best survey of the twentieth-century evangelical thought that we
have." - George Marsden "This book will be of immense value to all
who want to know what the background to current evangelical
biblical scholarship is, and who want to explore the likely
developments in the future." - Gerald Bray, The Churchman " Noll]
has enriched our knowledge of this history through his mastery of
its substance and has come to grips with its findings." - Todd
Nichol, Word and World Mark A. Noll, the McManis Professor of
Christian Thought and professor of church history at Wheaton
College, has written more than ten books, including Religion, Faith
and American Politics, and Christian Faith and Practice in the
Modern World. He edited Confessions and Catechisms of the
Reformation. His PhD degree is from Vanderbilt University.
"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. I am delighted to see this
book appear." - Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale University "It is a delight
to welcome Mark Noll's well-chosen, well-edited selection of key
sixteenth-century statements of faith - Lutheran, Reformed,
Anglican, Anabaptist, Roman Catholic. To have this significant
material brought together in one book is a boon, for the enrichment
that comes of studying it as a whole is very great. For anyone who
would take the measure of the Reformation conflict, this collection
is a 'must.'" - J.I. Packer, Regent College "Mark Noll has ably
introduced these still living confessions to a modern audience more
prone to forgetfulness than any since the sixteenth century. This
collection will be useful not only for classes in historical and
systematic theology, but also to pastors and lay readers who wish
better to understand their Protestant heritage." - Thomas C. Oden,
Drew University
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. In this important book, Mark Noll, one of the most
influential historians of American religion writing today, traces
the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with
race.
Noll demonstrates how supporters and opponents of slavery and
segregation drew equally on the Bible to justify the morality of
their positions. He shows how a common evangelical heritage
supported Jim Crow discrimination and contributed powerfully to the
black theology of liberation preached by Martin Luther King Jr. In
probing such connections, Noll takes readers from the 1830 slave
revolt of Nat Turner through Reconstruction and the long Jim Crow
era, from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s to
"values" voting in recent presidential elections. He argues that
the greatest transformations in American political history, from
the Civil War through the civil rights revolution and beyond,
constitute an interconnected narrative in which opposing appeals to
Biblical truth gave rise to often-contradictory religious and moral
complexities. And he shows how this heritage remains alive today in
controversies surrounding stem-cell research and abortion as well
as civil rights reform.
"God and Race in American Politics" is a panoramic history that
reveals the profound role of religion in American political history
and in American discourse on race and social justice.
Narrates the drama of a famous preacher's entire career in his
historical context. George Whitefield (1714-1770) is remembered as
a spirited revivalist, a catalyst for the Great Awakening, and a
founder of the evangelical movement in America. But Whitefield was
also a citizen of the British Empire who used his political savvy
and theological creativity to champion the cause of imperial
expansion. In this religious biography of "the Grand Itinerant,"
Peter Choi reexamines the Great Awakening and its relationship to a
fast-growing British Empire in the context of a dramatic human
story. Choi shows that as the British Empire and the Great
Awakening evolved, so did Whitefield and his influence. Rather than
focusing on his early preaching career, as many books do, Choi
follows the trajectory of Whitefield's whole life, including his
relation-ships to Britain, the American colonies, slavery, war, and
higher education. George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire
tells the fascinating, multifaceted life story of Whitefield both
as revivalist preacher and subject of the British Empire.
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Mark A. Noll presents a fresh and accessible history of
Protestantism from the era of Martin Luther to the present day.
Beginning with the founding of Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and
Anabaptist churches in the sixteenth-century Reformation, he also
considers the rise of other important Christian movements like
Methodism and Pentecostalism. Focussing on worldwide developments,
rather than just the familiar European and American histories, he
considers the recent expansion of Protestant movements in Africa,
China, India, and Latin America, emphasising the on-going and
rapidly expanding story of Protestants worldwide. Noll examines the
contributions from well-known figures including Martin Luther and
John Calvin, along with many others, and explores why Protestant
energies have flagged recently in the Western world yet expanded so
dramatically elsewhere. Highlighting the key points of Protestant
commonality including the message of Christian salvation, reliance
on the Bible, and organization through personal initiative, he also
explores the reasons for Protestantism's extraordinary diversity.
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