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Author : John A. Hardon
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Protestant Churches of America written by John A. Hardon and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140398
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Protestant Faith in America written by J. Gordon Melton and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the oldest Christian communion in the United States, the Protestant faith.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Protestant Churches of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerald C. Brauer
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Protestantism in America written by Jerald C. Brauer and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis A. Schaeffer
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 9781433517242
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Evangelical Disaster written by Francis A. Schaeffer and published by Crossway. This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have Christians compromised their stand on truth and morality until there is almost nothing they will speak out against? Has the evangelical church itself sold out to the world? A provocative and challenging book—but one that is tempered by Dr. Schaeffer's deep commitment to Christ and love for the church.
Author : Joseph Bottum
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385521464
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Anxious Age written by Joseph Bottum and published by Image. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.
Author : Randall Balmer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231507691
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Protestantism in America written by Randall Balmer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America has become more pluralistic, Protestantism, with its long roots in American history and culture, has hardly remained static. This finely crafted portrait of a remarkably complex group of Christian denominations describes Protestantism's history, constituent subgroups and their activities, and the way in which its dialectic with American culture has shaped such facets of the wider society as healthcare, welfare, labor relations, gender roles, and political discourse. Part I provides an introduction to the religion's essential beliefs, a brief history, and a taxonomy of its primary American varieties. Part II shows the diversity of the tradition with vivid accounts of life and worship in a variety of mainline and evangelical churches. Part III explores the vexed relationship Protestantism maintains with critical social issues, including homosexuality, feminism, and social justice. The appendices include biographical sketches of notable Protestant leaders, a chronology, a glossary, and an annotated list of resources for further study.
Author : George Hawley
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498548407
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America’s Christian Denominations written by George Hawley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the state of Christianity in the United States, considering trends in religious beliefs and affiliation over the last forty years. It seeks to explain why so many of America’s largest denominations have witnessed such a dramatic decline during this period. It argues that, although there are many elements to this decline, the shrinking families of Americans—including American Christians—are a primary explanation for our aging and shrinking Christian congregations. Beyond establishing this explanation for organized decline, this book also offers a survey of the relevant research explaining why more and more Americans are deferring family formation and having fewer (in many cases, zero) children. It discusses the relevant social science research on this subject, which focuses heavily on the role of economic change. It also summarizes the relevant research on cultural change and the family, particularly the relationship between religious beliefs and activities and changing family norms.
Author : Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Half Century of Theology written by Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Flake
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863548
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Politics of American Religious Identity written by Kathleen Flake and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism, especially its polygamous family structure. The Smoot hearing ultimately mediated a compromise between Progressive Era Protestantism and Mormonism and resolved the nation's long-standing "Mormon Problem." On a broader scale, Kathleen Flake shows how this landmark hearing provided the occasion for the country--through its elected representatives, the daily press, citizen petitions, and social reform activism--to reconsider the scope of religious free exercise in the new century. Flake contends that the Smoot hearing was the forge in which the Latter-day Saints, the Protestants, and the Senate hammered out a model for church-state relations, shaping for a new generation of non-Protestant and non-Christian Americans what it meant to be free and religious. In addition, she discusses the Latter-day Saints' use of narrative and collective memory to retain their religious identity even as they changed to meet the nation's demands.
