"It remains the classic reflection of the Protestant roots and ethos behind pluralistic America and its religions today." Marty notes that the new "raw and rich pluralism" that challenges the Prote…
An analysis of the European Enlightenment movement in the late eighteenth century. Men of the Enlightenment, such as David Hume, Voltaire, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were those who believed that the…
Covering the entire sweep of American history, this unique series draws its materials entirely from primary sources. Skillful annotation and interpretive introductions add to the vitality of these …
This book is more handy than it is comprehensive (the endnotes direct the reader to some promising articles and books, but Balmer does not provide even a short bibliography). This book probably won…
There was a day when the plausibility of Christianity was debated on a philosophical and metaphysical basis: Does God exist? Can a good God create and sustain a world marred by evil? Can peoples in…
This is a book about real people struggling to survive but have come upon even more hard times. Homeless, living on the streets, nowhere to go. The Embankment on the Thames is full of people who ha…
Western society today lives from community fragments and moral fragments alone, and these fragments are being destroyed more quickly than they are being replenished. Larry Rasmussen assesses the lo…
What if the deepest longing of your heart were there for a reason? Small-minded , boxed-in formulas of modern religion weren't the truth? The gospel of Jesus was not 'safe' after all, but full of i…
This book lays out how the lessons of the dark past shaped a people’s religious quest for liberation and their long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. The book bears witness to the stor…
Although evangelicals enjoyed repect and leadership in American society in the decades before the Civil War, their fortunes declined precipitately in the wake of the industrialism, modernism, and s…