audiobook Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan by Donald Robert Beagle; Bryan Albin Giemza in History

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Blending a commanding knowledge of the fi eld with a rare gift for synthesis and lucid expression; Mark Noll brings to life what it meant for Christians in a diff erent time and place to wrestle with the political implications of their faith. Nathan O. Hatch; University of Notre Dame "His study . . . should provoke us afresh to a reexamination of the interpretation of belief and culture in our own time." David F. Wells; Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary When Christians understand the religious history of the United States; with its close connection to political history; they are better prepared to make knowledgable contributions to the current discussion of national values; priorities and purposes. Christians in the American Revolution begins with a brief survey of the political and religious background of the pre-Revolutionary years. Th e author then examines the influence of various religious convictions on the movement for independence and; conversely; the eff ect of the Revolution on colonial church bodies and their understanding of Christian truth. Colonial Christians responded in four major ways to the Revolution: they supported complete freedom in politics and religion; they advocated social and political reform; they called for submission to English authority; and they argued against involvement of Christians in the war eff ort. Whether Patriot; Reformer; Loyalist or Pacifi st; American Christian colonials infl uenced not only the fledgling nation; but the development of religious thought to the present. This revised edition includes a new bibliographic essay detailing contributions to this field since the first edition was published in 1977. MARK A. NOLL (PhD; Vanderbilt University) is McManis Professor of Christian Th ought at Wheaton College in Wheaton; Illinois. In recent years he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School; University of Chicago Divinity School; Westminster Th eological Seminary and Regent College (Vancouver; British Columbia). A widely recognized expert in American religious history; he has written numerous books; including America's God; The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada.