Mark A. Noll 
The New Shape of World Christianity [EPUB ebook] 
How American Experience Reflects Global Faith

– 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 (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Francis Mc Ananey Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Some of his many books include The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, The New Shape of World Christianity, Is the Reformation Over? and The Old Religion in a New World.