With impressively clear prose and a superb command of history, best-selling author Randall Balmer offers a spirited history of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Effortlessly situating developments in evangelicalism in their wider historical context, he demonstrates the ways American social and cultural settings influenced the course of the evangelical tradition. By revealing the four key moments in the movement’s history, he ably demonstrates how American Evangelicalism is truly American. Concluding with a manifesto directing where evangelicalism must go from here forth, Balmer’s The Making of Evangelicalism will interest every reader—evangelical, mainline, secular—who wants to better understand evangelicals today.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: The Age of Revivals and the First Amendment
Chapter 2: The Transition from Postmillennialism to Premillennialism
Chapter 3: The Construction of a Subculture
Chapter 4: The Rise of the Religious Right
Conclusion
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