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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 in the early United States that was then fractured by debates over slavery, contested by growing numbers of non-Protestant Americans, and torn apart by the Civil War. This first comprehensive history of the Bible in America explains why Tom Paine's ...

Perhaps no other literary figure has transformed the American religious landscape in recent history as much as C. S. Lewis. Even before the international publication and incredible success of his fictional works such as The Chronicles of Narnia or apologetic works like Mere Christianity, Lewis was already being read "across the pond" in America. But who exactly was reading his work? And how was he received? With fresh research and shrewd analy...

How has the work of C. S. Lewis transformed the American religious landscape? With fresh research and analysis, this volume by noted historian Mark A. Noll considers the surprising reception of Lewis among Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, and evangelical readers to see how early readings of the Oxford don shaped his later influence.

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This new edition of a bestselling textbook isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity.

America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture.

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"--

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Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the ProtestantReformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Ma...

This books draws together significant considerations of evangelicalism from three of the historians who have contributed a great deal to putting the subject on the map, along with selected commentary from others who have benefited from, or sometimes questioned, their work"--

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 United States and Canada." - The Journal of American History "Scholars and general readers alike will gain unique insights into the multifaceted character of Christianity in its New World environment. Nothing short of brilliant." - Harry S. Stout, Yale U...

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In this popular introduction to church history, now in its third edition, Noll isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity.

In this popular introduction to church history, now in its third edition, Noll isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity.

Covering Puritans, Presbyterians, and everyone in between, this work follows the dynamic path of Protestantism in the United States, from the first English colony at Jamestown to "megachurches" and televangelism in the 21st century. 15 photos.

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 Stout, John F. Wilson, Daniel Walker Howe, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Robert Swierenga, Martin Mary, Robert Wuthnow, and George Marsden .

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