Randall Balmer
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Randall Balmer wrote Bad Faith, Saving Faith, and God in the White House.
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History & Biography
“In his Brief History of Sunday Justo L. González demonstrates both an impressive command of history and a dexterous handling of sources. He concludes, provocatively, that Christian observance of Sunday in the twenty-first century might actually benefit from a reversion to the pre-Constantinian model, when Christianity was not the favored faith. This is a very good, informative, and lively book.”
History & Biography
“Endicott Peabody’s dying words, ‘You know there’s no doubt but that Roosevelt is a very religious man,’ provide a good summation of America’s thirty-second president. This remarkable and long- overdue biography traces Franklin Roosevelt’s religious development from childhood through Peabody’s Groton School to the presidency, during which FDR continued to serve as senior warden of St. James’ Episcopal Church in Hyde Park. Roosevelt’s self-description as a Christian and a Democrat comes alive in this excellent, thoroughly researched biography, a book that promises to reshape our understanding of the twentieth century’s most consequential president.”
A. B. Simpson and the Pentecostal Movement
History & Biography
“In A. B. Simpson and the Pentecostal Movement, Charles Nienkirken has combined prodigious research with mastery of historical and theological sources to produce a superb study of Simpson's relationship with early pentecostalism. This is a most important and useful work.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“As John Fanestil expertly demonstrates in American Heresy, the idea that the United States occupies a special place in the divine economy extends back to the colonial era, and the nation's founders drew on English Protestant notions of divine protection and providence. White Christian nationalism, he argues, traffics in "violence, nostalgia, racism, propaganda, conspiratorial thinking, and nationalism," and we ignore the religious reverberations of America's past at our peril. Self-examination and repentance are in order, even for those who identify as Christian progressives. This is a thoughtful, provocative, and well-argued book.”
Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The bonds between Christianity and democracy are frayed as never before, not only in the United States but around the globe. In Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, one of our best Christian ethicists takes on this crucial topic and charts a way forward—one that does not entail obeisance to a ‘Christian strongman.’ This is a very good and important book.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Thoroughly researched and carefully argued, Devils of Democracy deserves serious attention.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Readers should not be fooled by Denker's storytelling ease and graceful prose into thinking this is simply another anodyne book about child-rearing. Her arguments about the sources and the persistence of racism, misogyny, and what she calls 'brutish masculinity' are powerful and, sadly, all too relevant. More important, she offers a way out--the examples of godly men who are working to subvert this toxic culture.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Foreword
“Keri Ladner's remarkable study of the theology informing Jerry Falwell's political machinations during the final decades of his life merits close attention. The significance of this important book lies in Ladner's argument that Falwell appropriated the searing cultural critique of dispensationalism--that the world is doomed and headed for judgment--and combined that critique with calls for moral reform and political activism in these "last days."”
Evangelicalism and The Decline of American Politics
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“With deft analysis and an impressive command of the contemporary political and religious scene, Jan G. Linn lays bare the cultural captivity of evangelicalism to the Republican Party. The consequence, as he demonstrates, has been detrimental to both, as well as to the public good. Evangelicalism and the Decline of American Politics provides a cautionary tale about the dangers of conflating religion and politics.”
History & Biography
“For years, I have used these conversion accounts both as a source of meditation and as a resource for instruction. John Mulder's judicious expansion of the earlier volume makes this collection even more valuable than before.”
History & Biography
“With keen insight, limpid prose, and infinite patience, Danielle Hensley probes the challenge many of us are facing these days: How to deal with avowedly Christian family and loved ones who have succumbed to the cult of Donald Trump.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Charlie Baber succeeds admirably in bringing context to the debate over LGBT rights and inclusion—both biblical context and historical context.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this revealing and compelling memoir, Heie demonstrates the many qualities that set him apart as a mature and exemplary follower of Jesus. For years, Heie has been calling us to what he calls ‘respectful conversations,’ marked by the biblical characteristics of ‘gentleness and respect.’ Those qualities, together with the author’s characteristic humility, make this a book worthy of serious consideration.”
History & Biography
“I have every confidence that on Tony Campolo’s day of reckoning, the words ‘good and faithful servant’ will reverberate across the heavens. Pilgrim captures the wisdom, the wit, and the prophetic witness of one of our most consistent voices calling for faithfulness to the demands of the gospel.”
Pocket History of Evangelical Theology
Theology
“Roger Olson demonstrates that he is not only a formidable theologian in his own right but also one who has an uncommon command of the work of others.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In Preparing for War, Bradley Onishi traces the history of White Christian nationalism from the John Birch Society to the Big Lie and the January 6 terrorist assault on the U.S. Capitol--a narrative enlivened by the author's own intersections with the movement. This is an excellent and important book, both chilling and prophetic.”
Roger Williams’s Little Book Of Virtues
History & Biography
“With withering wit and uncommon wisdom, Becky Garrison turns our attention to Roger Williams, founder of the Baptist tradition in America and the neglected sage of early America. Williams’s warnings about the dangers of conflating church and state have never been more relevant.”
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Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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