David W. Bebbington
“Christian publishing has altered out of all recognition since the middle of the twentieth century. Technical innovations and business developments, together with the decline of Christian retail stores and the increase in the number of publications, have all entailed drastic change. In this volume, Christian publishers—Catholic as well as Protestant, mainstream as well as Evangelical—report on their experiences, so shedding light on the international Christian culture that they have helped to shape.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Andrew Partington has written a thorough analysis of the role of the bishops in the House of Lords during the Thatcher years. This study casts light on an issue of the relations of church and state still very much alive in the early years of the twenty-first century.”
Christian Living
“Christians of any age can learn from their predecessors in the faith. Here is a range of prayers from the past that resonate with believers of the present, showing how our experience of praise, thanksgiving, confession, petition, and intercession can be enriched. The editors are historians who have supplied background information for each of the sources (nearly half of which come from the first third of the church’s history) and even the original texts of the translations. Scholarship has been put at the service of today’s church.”
Communion with Christ and His People
History & Biography
Foreword
“Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the greatest of Victorian preachers. His attitude towards issues in the spiritual life, never before examined at book length, has now been thoroughly analyzed by Peter Morden. In a carefully structured study of great clarity, the author shows that Spurgeon's concerns, though multifaceted and diverse in origin, can be summed up as 'communion with Christ and his people.'”
History & Biography
“Pentecostalism emerged in the early years of the twentieth century, shortly followed by Fundamentalism. The adherents of the two movements shared an Evangelical heritage and yet they disagreed sharply with each other. Members of each group denounced the other as betrayers of the gospel and worse. Gerald King has analyzed their antagonistic rhetoric and its theological premises, vividly illuminating a world in which the two sides 'disfellowshiped' each other.”
Divine Healing: The Holiness-Pentecostal Transition Years, 1890–1906
History & Biography
“The Holiness Movement of the later nineteenth century generated a ferment surrounding the doctrine of healing by faith in the atonement. By the helpful technique of a series of detailed vignettes, James Robinson traces the course of opinion on the subject. The result is an illuminating study on the powerful influence of this body of thought on the emergent Pentecostal Movement at the opening of the twentieth century.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Fundamentalists in America had traditionally avoided politics for the sake of spreading the gospel, but in the late twentieth century, as Keri Ladner argues in this book, the Fundamentalist Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell "created a new political religion." He blended the end-time theology of dispensationalism with the right-wing causes of the day to produce a powerful ideology sometimes labeled "Christian nationalism." Its enduring legacy is a powerful factor in the public square of the 2020s.”
History & Biography
“Latin America is the part of the world where the highest proportion of the inhabitants identify themselves as Christians. This collection of up-to-date essays covers early colonial encounters, subsequent Christian experience, and twenty-first-century issues facing believers. From the appropriation of the faith by the Aztecs to the grand ambitions of the Neo-Pentecostals, the volume vividly illustrates the diversity of popular religion in the continent.”
History & Biography
“For many centuries Europe was the citadel of the Christian faith, resisting attempts to dislodge it and taking steps to extend it more broadly. Here is a set of chapters that outline, thematically as well as chronologically, the main features of its historical experience. They reveal both why the continent’s Christian strength survived so long and why it has been sapped in the recent past.”
History & Biography
“Doreen Rosman's book . . . bears testimony to the eagerness of evangelicals to join in cultural affairs . . . It goes a long way towards explaining the permeation of nineteenth-century culture by evangelical values.”
Evangelicals and Liberation Revisited
Theology
“It is often assumed that liberation theology, as developed in Latin America, has nothing in common with evangelical theology. Joao Chaves, however, suggests there is scope for sympathetic dialogue between the two. Because they share a concern for social transformation, they may even be compatible.”
History & Biography
“The complex mosaic of North American Christianity is faithfully represented in this volume with chapters on indigenous, slave, and Roman Catholic religion, on women, doubt, and the social gospel, on Protestant developments from the foundation through revival, dispensationalism, and Pentecostalism to contemporary Evangelicalism and on the less churched West Coast, the distinctive church life of Texas, and the refugees of Houston in that state. There is something for everyone here!”
History & Biography
“Hannah More, famed as a gifted playwright, was a witty ornament of London parties in the later eighteenth century. Yet she was also a defender of the British constitution, an architect of Victorian family life and a resolute opponent of the slave trade. Karen Swallow Prior has given a rounded portrait of a woman who combined literary ability with Evangelical piety in a most attractive way.”
History & Biography
“Francis Schaeffer taught evangelicals how to understand their world, exerting a profound influence over the next generation of young leaders after the publication in 1968 of The God Who Is There and Escape from Reason. His ministry at L'Abri, a Swiss center for caring for the hurt and the doubtful, had persuaded him of the need to discern how alternative worldviews had interacted over time with the Christian faith. He led the way, long before it was fashionable, in analyzing culture. Colin Duriez, who studied under Schaeffer and has interviewed many who were shaped by him, has written a lively biography that will introduce this powerful apologist to the twenty-first century.”
Fundamentalists in the Public Square
History & Biography
“The fundamentalists who censured theological modernism in the 1920s are often supposed to have been inactive in the public square because they believed in concentrating on saving souls. However, in Fundamentalists in the Public Square, Madison Trammel clearly demonstrates that they were strongly engaged in opposition to evolution and in support of prohibition. By drawing on a wealth of evidence from the press of four states, he also shows that they suffered less condemnation at the hands of public opinion than might be expected.”
History & Biography
“The evangelical movement consists of a growing and often influential body of Christian believers worldwide, but scholars and commentators are frequently baffled by its sheer diversity and complexity. Here, leading experts set out the basic characteristics of the movement as it has developed over time in various parts of the world, showing how it has related to secular society, other religious bodies and issues such as gender and globalization.”
Theology
“Steven Keillor is a historian, analyzing events in all their complexity. But he is also a Christian, seeing in his Bible the principle that divine judgment is at work in particular happenings. In this thoughtful but lively book, he brings together the two approaches, drawing out uncomfortable implications for those of all political persuasions.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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