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Nov 26, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Jerome Copulsky |Mark Noll |Daniel Mahoney |Nadya Williams
https://www.amazon.com/American-Heretics-Religious-Adversaries-Liberal/dp/0300241305Jerome Copulsky’s thoughtful, carefully researched, and timely American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Orderexamines movements that, out of a higher loyalty to Christian or theistic convictions, have challenged “American liberalism, democracy, pluralism, secularism, or some combination thereof.” He is not considering the Amish, Orthodox Jewish communities, or others who have constructed their own...
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Mark Noll
Two Catholic critics numbered among Lewis’s most enthusiastic American readersThis essay is a Preview, a new occasional feature at Current and a companion to our Review features. In Previews we publish short excerpts from new and upcoming books that tell a good story and fit our general mission of commentary, reflection, judgment. It has been adapted from C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935-1947 by Mark Noll. InterVarsity Press, 2023.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Mark Noll
Two Catholic critics numbered among Lewis’s most enthusiastic American readersThis essay is a Preview, a new occasional feature at Current and a companion to our Review features. In Previews we publish short excerpts from new and upcoming books that tell a good story and fit our general mission of commentary, reflection, judgment. It has been adapted from C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935-1947 by Mark Noll. InterVarsity Press, 2023.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
currentpub.com | Mark Noll
Two long books about one sacred book take us to the heart of the nation’s past—and presentMore than forty years ago a few historian friends and I found ourselves engaged in a lively conversation sparked by the question of the Bible in history. We were all connected in different ways to an American evangelical world busily tying itself in knots debating the doctrine of biblical inerrancy: Was the Bible true as history?
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
currentpub.com | Mark Noll
Mark NollMark Noll is retired as a historian who taught at Wheaton College and the University of Notre Dame. The books mentioned in this essay continue work begun with America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (2002) and The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006). Mark Noll | October 10, 2023Two long books about one sacred book take us to the heart of the nation’s past—and present (To access this content, become a member or log in.)
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
christiancentury.org | Mark Noll |Martha Tatarnic |Jessica Mesman |Libby Howe
“This country is, as everybody knows, a creation of the Bible,” said Solomon Schechter at the dedication of a new building at New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary in 1903. The renowned Jewish scholar went on: “The Bible is still holding its own, exercising enormous influence as a real spiritual power, in spite of all the destructive tendencies.”Schechter gave these remarks at almost the exact midpoint between the American founding and the present day. Were they true then? Are they true now?
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May 8, 2023 | 
christianscholars.com | Mark Noll
Almost forty years ago Alvin Plantinga’s memorable “Advice to Christian Philosophers” set out a three-fold challenge to encourage members of his own academic tribe, but also “Christian intellectuals generally.” First, “to display . . . more independence of the rest of the philosophical world”; second, to “display more integrity in the sense of integral wholeness”; and, third, to display greater “Christian courage, or boldness, or strength, or . . .
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May 4, 2023 | 
eerdmans.com | Daniel Hummel |Mark Noll
Description Contents Praise A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and religion In The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism, Daniel G. Hummel illuminates how dispensationalism, despite often being dismissed as a fringe end-times theory, shaped Anglo-American evangelicalism and the larger American cultural imagination.
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Mar 13, 2023 | 
lsupress.org | Obbie Todd |Mark Noll
The Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called “the father of more brains than any other man in America.” Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well-known preacher in America, a suffragist, a radical abolitionist, a pioneer in women’s education, and the founder of home economics. Rejecting many of their father’s Puritan beliefs, the deeply religious Beechers nevertheless embraced his quest to exert moral influence.
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Mar 8, 2023 | 
eerdmans.com | Daniel Hummel |Mark Noll
The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation HARDCOVER; Coming Soon: 5/4/2023 ISBN: 978-0-8028-7922-6 400 Pages Trim Size, in inches: 6 x 9 DESCRIPTION A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and religion In The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism, Daniel G. Hummel illuminates how dispensationalism, despite often being dismissed as a fringe apocalyptic movement, shaped Anglo-American...
