Protestant America and the Pagan World

Protestant America and the Pagan World
Author: Clifton Jackson Phillips
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1684171636

A history of the early decades of the American foreign missions movement, including the relationship between missionaries and commercial activities.

OLD EVANGELIZATION

OLD EVANGELIZATION
Author: Eric Sammons
Publisher: Catholic Answers Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781683570301

Pagans and Christians in the City

Pagans and Christians in the City
Author: Steven D. Smith
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467451487

Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.

Protestants Abroad

Protestants Abroad
Author: David A. Hollinger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691192782

Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists. --

Presbyterians and American Culture

Presbyterians and American Culture
Author: Bradley J. Longfield
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 066423156X

This book provides a history of Presbyterians in American culture from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Longfield assesses both the theological and cultural development of American Presbyterianism, with particular focus on the mainline tradition that is expressed most prominently in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He explores how Presbyterian churches--and individuals rooted in those churches--influenced and were influenced by the values, attitudes, perspectives, beliefs, and ideals assumed by Americans in the course of American history. The book will serve as an important introduction to Presbyterian history that will interest historians, students, and church leaders alike.

Edwards and the Edwardseans

Edwards and the Edwardseans
Author: David W. Kling
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2024-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Edwards and the Edwardseans gathers into a single volume eight of the author’s previously published articles and chapters. Suitable as either a basic or supplementary text for interested lay people and graduate students, this book serves as an introduction to the central spiritual and theological interests of Jonathan Edwards and to the long shadow those interests cast on his eponymous followers. The first four chapters (Part One) focus on Jonathan Edwards—his formative role in the Great Awakening, his biblical understanding of conversion, his perspective on petitionary prayer, and his influence on missionary endeavors. The following four chapters (Part Two) trace a well-defined theological movement from Edwards to his second- and especially third-generation followers. The impact of this movement resulted in the creation of a distinct theological culture that, over two generations, was institutionalized in informal seminaries or “schools of the prophets” in colleges attended by New Divinity students and staffed by New Divinity presidents and in missionary outreach both at home and abroad. Taken together, these chapters introduce theological subjects that mattered most to Edwards and his disciples: spiritual revival, conversion, the Bible, prayer, and extending the kingdom of God.

Marquesan Encounters

Marquesan Encounters
Author: Thomas Walter Herbert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1980
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780674550667

Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery

Religion and the Antebellum Debate Over Slavery
Author: John R. McKivigan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780820319728

Essays discuss proslavery arguments in the churches, the urge toward compromise and unity, the coming of schisms in the various denominations, and the role of local conditions in determining policies

Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission
Author: Martha Frederiks
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004399585

This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.