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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.
Stephen B. Oates – Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Conor Cruise O'Brien God's Land; Flann O'Brien – The Third Policeman; Janette Oke – Love's Long Journey; The Meeting Place (with T. Davis Bunn); Toby Olsen – The Life of Jesus; Carl Olson – The Book of the Goddess
Evangelicalism has played an important role in shaping American religion and culture. The First Great Awakening of the 18th century marked the rise of evangelical religion in colonial America. As the revival spread throughout the Thirteen Colonies, evangelicalism united Americans around a common faith. [1]
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.
"The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism" is an essay by Aaron Renn published in the February 2022 issue of First Things magazine. The essay refined a chronological framework—which Renn had originally developed in 2017 and described as "positive world," "neutral world," and "negative world"—for understanding the relationship of Protestant evangelicalism with an increasingly secular American ...
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.
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.
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin (2006) Fundamentalism and American Culture by George M. Marsden (2006) Yet Saints Their Watch Are Keeping: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and the Development of Evangelical Ecclesiology, 1887–1937 by J. Michael Utzinger (2006)