Based on a national telephone survey and more than 300 personal interviews with evangelicals and other churchgoing Protestants, this study provides a detailed analysis of the commitments, beliefs, concerns, and practices of this thriving group. The book is sure to provoke lively debate over the state of religious practice in contemporary America.
Steven P. Miller explores the place and meaning of evangelical Christianity in the United States between 1970 and 2008.
There is a crisis of truth in our time, asserts Michael Horton, even in our evangelical church. And it is due at least in part to our cultural accommodation. Horton believes the time has come to call evangelicals back to faith and truth.
Each chapter in this book has been written by one of the world's top experts in American religious history, and together they form a single narrative of evangelicalism's remarkable development.
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...
Perhaps the first scholar to designate this tradition as evangelical was Robert Baird , in his Religion in America ( 1844 ) ... David Edwin Harrell confirmed that judgment with a lengthy discussion of Churches of Christ in a volume ...
This book proposes that participation in "God's Project of Reconciliation" is the "Center" that can hold evangelical Christians together in the midst of great diversity in belief and ecclesiastical practices.
Barry Hankins puts the Evangelical movement in historical perspective, reaching back to its roots in the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century and leading up to the formative moments of contemporary conservative Protestantism.
In this preface, though, I want to explain why “the evangelical mind” sounds increasingly to me like an oxymoron. As set out in Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind, I still believe that evangelical variations of classical Christianity ...
... James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams—embraced a more liberal religion, which has been called as Deism. ... on the whole they rested on secular sources—especially John Locke and the Scottish Enlightenment.
... 1890–1915 Daniel A. Clark Robert Koehler's “The Strike”: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest James M. Dennis Emerson's Liberalism Neal Dolan ObservingAmerica: The Commentary of British Visitors to the ...