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George Mish Marsden (born February 25, 1939) is an American historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American evangelicalism.
The Book of Life is a 1998 film directed by Hal Hartley. In the film, Jesus returns to earth on the eve of the new millennium planning to bring about the apocalypse, but finds himself surprisingly enamored of humanity. It stars Martin Donovan as Jesus, PJ Harvey as Mary Magdalene, and Thomas Jay Ryan as The Devil.
Films about evangelicalism, a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "born again", in which an individual experiences personal conversion; the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity (biblical inerrancy); and evangelism.
George M. Marsden critiques Henry's book The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (1947), saying it was a good critique of fundamentalism and helped to create a new focus for evangelicalism that emphasized broader cultural engagement. However, Marsden also argues that Henry's critique was limited by his own theological and cultural biases.
Mark Allan Noll (born 1946) is an American historian specializing in the history of Christianity in the United States.He holds the position of Research Professor of History at Regent College, [2] having previously been Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
A new book documents growing extremism in some evangelical churches, but also finds there is momentum among American Christians who are working to counter extremism and reform evangelicalism.
With the founding of the NAE, American Protestantism was divided into three large groups—the fundamentalists, the modernists, and the new evangelicals, who sought to position themselves between the other two. In 1947 Harold Ockenga coined the term neo-evangelicalism to identify a movement distinct from fundamentalism. The neo-evangelicals had ...
Plaque commemorating the spot on Court Street in Boston where Dwight Moody was converted in 1855 by Edward Kimball in 1855. Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 22, 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount ...