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John J Fry
What role did Laura Ingalls Wilder's Christian faith play in her life and writing?
The beloved Little Housebooks by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold over 60 million copies since their…
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Obbie Tyler Todd, Mark A. Noll
The Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called "the father of more brains than any other man in America." Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president…
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Kirk D. Farney
Kirk D. Farney explores the work of Fulton J. Sheen and Walter A. Maier as groundbreaking leaders combining theology and technology to spread the gospel in the "Golden Age" of…
Elesha J. Coffman
American history has profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, Christianity. This book provides a brisk and lively yet deeply researched survey of these intertwined forces from the colonial period to…
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Richard E Burnett
The first critical biography of J. Gresham Machen, examining the full arc of his intellectual career J. Gresham Machen is known as a conservative hero of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy. But…
Elesha J Coffman
"An excellent resource for those eager to learn more about the evolution of American Christianity." --Publishers Weekly American history has profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, Christianity. This engaging introduction…
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Mark A. Noll
On September 15, 1959, Georges Vanier, Canada’s Governor-General soon-to-be, began his acceptance speech with the following invocation: Mr. Prime Minister, my first words are a prayer. May Almighty God in…
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…
Although Christian believers agreed that the Bible was authoritative and that it should be interpreted through commonsense principles, there was rampant disagreement about what Scripture taught about slavery. This book…
A best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years
An excellent study that will help historians appreciate the importance of Christianity in the history of the…
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…
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…
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…
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This collection of all new essays offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. The authors of these essays argue it is…
A foremost historian of religion chronicles the arrival of Christianity in the New World, tracing the turning points in the development of the immigrant church which have led to today’s…
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…
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An award-winning critique of the failure of America’s white evangelicals to nurture a thriving intellectual life, with a new preface and afterword by the author –
Evangelical Christianity was a predominant stream of religion during the early history of the United States. Mark Noll describes and interprets American evangelical Christianity to explain the position evangelicalism now…
Adding complexity to older missiological arguments about American global influence, Mark Noll suggests that how Americans have come to practice the Christian faith is just as globally important as what…
Mark, A. Noll
Noll examines the influence of various religious convictions on the movement for independence and, conversely, the effect of the Revolution on colonial church bodies and their understanding of Christian truth.
Mark Noll (Author)
The first in a series of books presenting a connected history of evangelical movements in the English-speaking world spread over nearly three centuries.
Prof Mark A Noll (University of Notre Dame)
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…
Mark A. Noll,Carolyn Nystrom
An evangelical evaluation of post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism and evangelical-Catholic relations.
Offers a unique collection of primary sources for eighteenth-century evangelical spirituality in America and Britain, along with introduction and commentary, prepared by a prominent scholar of evangelical theology.
John Piper
In this four-disc audio book a pastor challenges the church to think hard for the glory of God. Piper demonstrates from Scripture that we don’t need to choose between glorifying…
Nystrom Carolyn,Mark A. Noll
In seventeen inspiring narratives Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom introduce a new and robust company of saints that has left a lasting imprint on the new Christian heartlands of Africa…
Piper demonstrates from Scripture that we don’t need to choose between glorifying God with our heart and glorifying him with our mind. It’s not heart or mind, but heart and…
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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…
Mark A. Noll,Joel Carpenter
A leading church historian shows how studying world Christianity changed his understanding of the nature of the faith, as well as of its history.
Maxie B Burch
An analysis of the academic philosophies of George Marsden, Nathan Hatch and Mark Noll. The author shows how these scholars founded the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, and…
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…
Mark A. Noll (Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame)
In this fresh and clear history of Protestantism, Mark A. Noll looks at the era from Martin Luther to the present day. Focussing on developments worldwide and including a range…
Frank Baker
Charles Wesley was a writer not only of hymns, but of poems of many kinds-devotional, whimsical, satirical, political, controversial, topical, and personal. Their volume is enormous. He himself published 4,600…
James D. Bratt
This is an English-language biography of the highly influential and astonishingly multifaceted Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) - theologian, minister, newspaper editor, educational innovator, politician, Calvinist reformer, and prime minister of the…
Kirk D. Farney explores the work of Fulton J. Sheen and Walter A. Maier as groundbreaking leaders combining theology and technology to spread the gospel in the Golden Age of…
Peter Y. Choi
A new biography of George Whitefield, discussing him not just as a revivalist but also as a subject of the British Empire –
As we approach the landmark date of October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation, countries, social movements, churches, universities, seminaries, and other institutions shaped by Protestantism are faced…
R. David Cox
The first close examination of how Robert E. Lee’s faith shaped his life Robert E. Lee was many things-accomplished soldier, military engineer, college president, family man, polarizing figure. He was…
Daniel G Hummel
A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and religion In The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism, Daniel G. Hummel illuminates how dispensationalism, despite often being…
This collection, which includes revisions of the original essays as well as entirely new material, presents works by seventeen of America’s leading historians and social scientists, including John Murrin, Harry…