Mark Noll
Biography
Mark Noll is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame and an emeritus professor of history at Wheaton College, where Noll also served as professor of church history and as McManis Professor of Christian Thought.
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Discipleship & Christian Education
“This book is aimed especially at leaders of Christian higher education, who in an age of digitization and diversity are recruiting the next generation of teacher-scholars for their schools. The contributors ground their assessment in a theology of vocation, they are alert to the changing culture of contemporary young adults, and they offer hard-won wisdom concerning the institutional dynamics of colleges and universities. Careful attention to theory seasoned by numerous specific examples make for unusually compelling reading.”
“Jason Byassee's essays make up a most engaging travelogue, but a travelogue that is metaphorical as well as geographical. . . . He finds Jesus at home and abroad, in many churches but also many places far from church, and in books that are both sacred and ostensibly secular. How Byassee connects these sites to the Jesus he finds in Scripture makes for unusually captivating (and bracingly edifying) reading.”
Theology
“Richard Lovelace's Dynamics of Spiritual Life was a rare kind of book when it was first published in 1979—biblically balanced, theologically sober, historically well informed, and pastorally inspiring. Since the need for such a book is now even greater, this expanded edition is a godsend. In our age so fixated on stones that cannot satisfy, Lovelace points us to the bread of heaven.”
Christian Living
“Jonathan Edwards is widely known as a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher. Serious students, like Dane Ortlund, have long known he was much more. In this book Ortlund puts his careful research to good purpose as he demonstrates convincingly that the center of Edwards’s concern was always and supremely beauty—in God, from God, and for God. Grateful readers will find this book highly informative on Edwards and deeply encouraging for the Christian life today.”
Evangelicalism & the Stone-Campbell Movement
History & Biography
Foreword
“The Restorationist tradition enjoys a long and honorable heritage of vigorous Bible scholarship. It is all to the good--for the Stone-Campbell movement and also for the broader evangelical community--when Restorationists once again join in the kind of vigorous public discussion that Alexander Campbell himself did so much to promote.”
Evangelicals and the Early Church
History & Biography
“This unusually interesting volume combines bracing historical engagement with rare theological wisdom. Its chapters carefully explore why, how, under what conditions, and how much contemporary evangelicals should try to appropriate guidance from the first Christian centuries. A particularly helpful feature is the paired chapters that promote the best kind of respectful give and take on contested or difficult questions. The book is a gem of edifying insight.”
History & Biography
“Tim Grass has written an unusually solid biography of an exceedingly solid scholar. Its pages provide a full account of F. F. Bruce's biblical scholarship and his pathbreaking leadership of evangelical intellectual life more generally. But they are also excellent on Bruce's faithful private side, especially his lifelong engagement in Brethren ministries. The result is a very good book on a very worthy subject.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This well-researched book takes readers further down the path outlined by Darren Dochuk’s recent and magisterial study, Anointed with Oil. Marshall adds important information especially on the tight links between Big Oil and the American evangelical community. She also draws thoughtful edifying conclusions, as herself an evangelical, from a story she tells very well.”
Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Paul Kemeny has assembled a sparkling collection of essays. Their consistently thought-provoking contributions to the general theme of Christianity and higher education include sharply focused studies on important individuals (C. S. Lewis, Wendell Berry, Dorothy L. Sayers), important institutions (Princeton University), important interpretive questions (the rise of the secular university, the advantages of exclusion), and more. Readers . . . will be amply rewarded by reading this book.”
History & Biography
“cheap tracts” for England’s poor in the tumultuous years of the American and French Revolutions. As educator, writer, reformer, and public Christian she was much lauded, but also much lampooned, during her own lifetime. With careful research, balanced judgments, accessible prose, and unusual insight, Karen Swallow Prior’s biography shows clearly why Hannah More made such an important impact in her own age, and also why her life can speak in significant ways to readers today.”
Christian Living
“It was most encouraging to read this full-blown, discerning, culturally sensitive, and bracingly Christian defense of intellectual life. The book offers exceptionally helpful commentary on the general plight of learning in modern society as well as unusually shrewd observations on the tragic consequences when churches abandon responsible intellectual effort. The book’s wisdom is heightened by the fact that its author says what needs to be said about Christian intellectual endeavor while maintaining his own Pentecostal convictions with integrity.”
History & Biography
“Mark Shaw's bold thesis about the ongoing importance of revivals in the modern world is a treasure for many reasons. It offers a persuasive account linking American pentecostalism and the American career of Billy Graham to the upsurge of evangelicalism around the world. It challenges blinkered views of evangelical Christianity that insist on reading it as just a cover for right-wing politics. And it opens edifying vistas for Christian believers of all sorts who have become aware of momentous shifts in the nature of Christianity around the world, but who have needed a solid theological guide for understanding what is taking place. Along with Michael McClymond's Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, this book is the most impressive study of worldwide Christian revival to have appeared in a very long time.”
Christian Living
“A succinct, well-organized, and clearly written historical account of contemporary Christianity as a truly global religion.”
Theology
“The clarity of Steven Keillor's theological reasoning as well as the boldness of his historical conclusions demand very serious attention. As myself an evangelical who is partial to worldview reasoning, I am not sure he has entirely convinced me. But I know he has made me think, and think hard.”
Christian Living
“The disappearance of Edwards's [God-entranced] perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy.”
History & Biography
“Through personal conversations with former Stasi officials and extensive investigation of the voluminous files left behind by East German's security service, Elisabeth Braw has written a fascinating story. The combination of systemic organizational management, craven treachery, heroic courage, and the utterly banal routinization of spycraft makes for compelling reading, but also a memorable lesson concerning the complexities of human action in a surveillance regime.”
Theology
“This book offers thought-provoking assessments of foundational Christian doctrines from close engagement with Asian circumstances and Asian Christian teachers. As it examines the Trinity, the church, the person and work of Christ, and the Holy Spirit, insights from western Protestants, Catholics and the Orthodox are put to good use, but always with the aim of articulating genuinely Asian theologies. Much of the future of Christian theology worldwide is outlined in this helpful study.”
Christian Living
“Francis Grimké has long deserved the kind of well-researched and carefully presented book Drew Martin has written. Grimké’s half-century career at one of the leading Black churches in Washington, DC, was marked by unusual commitment to the gospel message combined with unusual discernment in addressing the social, domestic, and racial realities faced by his congregation. Martin’s accessible account of Grimké’s ‘holistic, yet differentiated, vision of the Christian life’ also shows that some important historical figures knew how to promote both faith in the private sphere and responsible Christianity in public. For historical and contemporary purposes, this is a timely and important book.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada
History & Biography
Theology
Editor
The New Shape of World Christianity
History & Biography
The Old Religion in a New World
History & Biography
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
History & Biography
The State of the Evangelical Mind
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