Eerdmans' handbook to Christianity in America /

Eerdmans' handbook to Christianity in America / [print] editors, Mark A. Noll ... [and others. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans, (c)1983. - xvi, 507 pages, 18. pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Illinois on lining papers.



The European roots of American Christianity -- Varieties of American Christianity before the Great Awakening -- The practice of religion in colonial America -- The era of the Great Awakening -- Christians and the birth of the republic -- The Bible in America -- The church in an age of revolution -- The swelling tide of revivalism -- An age of experiment and reform -- The triumph of the voluntary church -- Theology and religious belief -- The immigrant church -- The church and the impending crisis -- Separation of church and state -- Christianity and American literature -- Did success spoil American Protestantism? -- The stars -- The era of crusades (1890-1917) -- New departures and conservative responses (1865-1917) -- Beyond the walls of Anglo-Saxon Zion -- End of an era : World War I and the 1920s -- Christianity and American higher education -- American worship : contrasting styles -- Looking back on fifty years (1930-1980) -- From the Great Depression to the war -- World War II and postwar revival -- An unruly time (1960-1980) -- On the brink of the future.



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