Author: Peter J. Thuesen

There is a paradox in American Christianity. According to Gallup, nearly eight in ten Americans regard the Bible as either the literal word of God or inspired by God. At the same time, surveys have r …

There is a paradox in American Christianity. According to Gallup, nearly eight in ten Americans regard the Bible as either the literal word of God or inspired by God. At the same time, surveys have r …

The story of the translation of the Bible in America begins with the King James Version. In fact, many Americans thought of the KJV as the foundational text of the Republic, rather than a cultural in …

Winner of the Christianity Today 2010 Book Award for History/Biography, and praised in Christian Century as "witty…erudite…masterful, " this groundbreaking history, the first of its kin …

One of the earliest sources of humanity’s religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstitio …

One of the earliest sources of humanity’s religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstitio …

Winner of the Christianity Today 2010 Book Award for History/Biography, and praised in Christian Century as "witty…erudite…masterful, " this groundbreaking history, the first of its kin …