– 2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner With characteristic rigor and insight, in this book Mark Noll revisits the history of the American church in the context of world events. He makes the compelling case that how Americans have come to practice the Christian faith is just as globally important as what the American church has done in the world. Noll backs up this substantial claim with the scholarly attentiveness we've come to expect from him, lucidly explaining the relationship between the development of Christianity in North America and the development of Christianity in the rest of the world, with attention to recent transfigurations in world Christianity. Here is a book that will challenge your assumptions about the nature of the relationship between the American church and the global church in the past and predict what world Christianity may look like.
Table of Content
Tables and Figures
1 Introduction
2 The New Shape of World Christianity
3 Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Identity, Power and Culture as Anticipating the Future
4 Posing the Question
5 What Does Counting Missionaries Reveal?
6 Indictment and Response
7 American Experience as Template
8 American Evangelicals View the World, 1900-2000
9 What Korean Believers Can Learn from American Evangelical History
10 The East African Revival
11 Reflections
Guide to Further Reading
Index
About the author
Mark A. Noll is emeritus professor of history at Wheaton College and the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including America's Book, Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind, Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia, The New Shape of World Christianity, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, and The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.
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