Mark A Noll: 13 books
The Future of Christian Learning
An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Evangelicals and Roman Catholics have been responsible for the establishment of many colleges and universities in America. Until recently, however, they have taken very different approaches to the subject of education and have viewed one another's traditions with suspicion.
In this volume,...
In the Beginning Was the Word
The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal. But while Spanish and Catholic Christianity reached the New World in 1492, it was only with settlements in the seventeenth century that English-language Bibles and Protestant Christendom arrived....
America's God
From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation,...
by Mark A. Noll
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Mark A. Noll presents a fresh and accessible history of Protestantism from the era of Martin Luther to the present day. Beginning with the founding of Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Anabaptist churches in the sixteenth-century Reformation, he also considers the rise of other important Christian...
by Mark A. Noll
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins of American Protestants all the way back to the first English...
Is the Reformation Over?
An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
For the last few decades, Catholics and Protestants have been working to heal the wounds caused by centuries of mistrust. This book, a Christianity Today 2006 Book Award winner, provides an evaluation of contemporary Roman Catholicism and the changing relationship between Catholics and evangelicals.
The...
Turning Points
Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In this popular introduction to church history, now in its third edition, Mark Noll isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a Western experience.
Now organized around...
by Mark A. Noll
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all...
From Every Tribe and Nation (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity)
A Historian's Discovery of the Global Christian Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, one of America's leading church historians shows how studying world Christianity changed and enriched his understanding of the nature of the faith as well as of...
Clouds of Witnesses
Christian Voices from Africa and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2011
Clouds of Witnesses**The New Shape of World Christianity.
The New Shape of World Christianity
How American Experience Reflects Global Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
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Sing Them Over Again to Me
Hymns and Hymnbooks in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.
This work is a study of the importance of Protestant hymns in defining America and American religion. It explores the underappreciated influence of hymns in shaping many spheres of personal and corporate life as well as the value...
Religion and the New Republic
Faith in the Founding of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
A collection of the country's most respected historians, philosophers, and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States. This collection of never before published essays, originally delivered at the Library of Congress, presents the most original and recent scholarship...