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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.
During the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression through
World War II to the Cold War, Americans found a welcome escape in
the new medium of radio. Throughout radio's "Golden Age," religious
broadcasting in particular contributed significantly to American
culture. Yet its historic role often has been overlooked. In
Ministers of a New Medium, Kirk D. Farney explores the work of two
groundbreaking leaders in religious broadcasting: Fulton J. Sheen
and Walter A. Maier. These clergymen and professors-one a Catholic
priest, the other a Lutheran minister-each led the way in combining
substantive theology and emerging technology to spread the gospel
over the airwaves. Through weekly nationwide broadcasts, Maier's
The Lutheran Hour and Sheen's Catholic Hour attracted listeners
across a spectrum of denominational and religious affiliations,
establishing their hosts-and Christian radio itself-as cultural and
religious forces to be reckoned with. Farney examines how Sheen and
Maier used their exceptional erudition, their sensitivity to the
times, their powerful communication skills, and their unwavering
Christian conviction, all for the purpose of calling the souls of
listeners and the soul of a nation to repentance and godliness.
Their combination of talents also brought their respective
denominations, Roman Catholicism and Missouri Synod Lutheranism,
from the periphery of the American religious landscape to a much
greater level of recognition and acceptance. With careful attention
to both the theological content and the cultural influence of these
masters of a new medium, Farney's study sheds new light on the
history of media and Christianity in the United States.
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.
Who were Jupiter Hammon, Lemuel Haynes and Daniel Alexander Payne?
And what do they have in common with Martin Luther King Jr., Howard
Thurman and James Cone? All of these were African American
Christian theologians, yet their theologies are, in many ways,
worlds apart. In this book, Thabiti Anyabwile offers a challenging
and provocative assessment of the history of African American
Christian theology, from its earliest beginnings to the present. He
argues trenchantly that the modern fruit of African American
theology has fallen far from the tree of its early predecessors. In
doing so, Anyabwile closely examines the theological commitments of
prominent African American theologians throughout American history.
Chapter by chapter, he traces what he sees as the theological
decline of African American theology from one generation to the
next, concluding with an unflinching examination of several
contemporary figures. Replete with primary texts and illustrations,
this book is a gold mine for any reader interested in the history
of African American Christianity. With a foreword by Mark Noll.
2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner With characteristic rigor
and insight, in this book Mark Noll revisits the history of the
American church in the context of world events. He makes the
compelling case that how Americans have come to practice the
Christian faith is just as globally important as what the American
church has done in the world. Noll backs up this substantial claim
with the scholarly attentiveness we've come to expect from him,
lucidly explaining the relationship between the development of
Christianity in North America and the development of Christianity
in the rest of the world, with attention to recent transfigurations
in world Christianity. Here is a book that will challenge your
assumptions about the nature of the relationship between the
American church and the global church in the past and predict what
world Christianity may look like.
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.
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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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 Mind shows how
the orthodox Christology confessed in the ancient Christian creeds,
far from hindering or discouraging serious scholarship, can supply
the motives, guidance, and framework for learning. Christian faith,
Noll argues, can richly enhance intellectual engagement in the
various academic disciplines -- and he demonstrates how by applying
his insights to the fields of history (his own area of expertise),
science, and biblical studies in particular.In a substantial
postscript Noll candidly addresses the question How fares the
"evangelical mind" today? as he highlights "hopeful signs" of
intellectual life in a host of evangelical institutions,
individuals, and movements.
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