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  • Jonathan Edwards: A Life

    by George M. Marsden ...
    Jonathan Edwards (17031758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century.In this definitive and long-awaited biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George Marsden evokes the world of ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards

    by George M. Marsden ...
    Series series Library of Religious Biography (LRB)
    Jonathan Edwards is one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. Arguably the most brilliant theologian ever born on American soil, Edwards (1703–1758) was also a pastor, a renowned preacher, a missionary to the Native Americans, a biographer, a college president, a philosopher, a loving husband, and the father of eleven children.George M. Marsden -- widely acclaimed for his ... Read more

    $26.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fundamentalism and American Culture

    by George M. Marsden ...
    Fundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed. Now available in a new edition, this highly regarded analysis takes us through the full history of the origin and direction of one of America's most influential religious movements. In the twenty-first century, militantly conservative white evangelicals have become more ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • The Soul of the American University Revisited

    From Protestant to Postsecular

    by George M. Marsden ...
    The Soul of the American University is a classic and much discussed account of the changing roles of Christianity in shaping American higher education, presented here in a newly revised edition to offer insights for a modern era. As late as the World War II era, it was not unusual even for state schools to offer chapel services or for leading universities to refer to themselves as “Christian” ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Academically Speaking

    Lessons from a Life in Christian Higher Education

    by Rick Ostrander ...
    A personal odyssey through the world of Christian higher education, narrated by a professional who has worked on both sides of the faculty-administrative divideWhat is the world of Christian higher education really like? With thirty years of experience in Christian academia, Rick Ostrander provides an insider's perspective on the field and its future.Ostrander cut his teeth as an undergraduate at ... Read more

    $35.87 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fundamentalism And American Culture

    by George M. Marsden ...
    Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful grassroots response. How has the fundamentalist movement managed to resist the pressures of the scientific community and the draw of modern popular ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

    by George M. Marsden ...
    At the end of his 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, George Marsden advanced a modest proposal for an enhanced role for religious faith in today's scholarship. This "unscientific postscript" helped spark a heated debate that spilled out of the pages of academic journals and The Chronicle of Higher Education into mainstream media such as The New York Times, and marked Marsden as one of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Religion and American Culture

    A Brief History

    by George M. Marsden ...
    While Americans still profess to be one of the most religious people in the industrialized world, many aspects of American culture have long been secular and materialistic. That is just one of the many paradoxes, contradictions, and surprises in the relationship between Christianity and American culture. In this book George Marsden, a leading historian of American Christianity and award-winning ... Read more

    $46.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Twilight of the American Enlightenment

    The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief

    by George Marsden ...
    In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Christian America?

    Perspectives on Our Religious Heritage

    by George Marsden, David Barton, Jonathan D. Sassi, Bill Henard ...
    Throughout her history America has possessed a rich religious component largely comprised of different traditions of the Christian faith. This tide of personal religious devotion connected to government observances and policies has ebbed and flowed through time, but it has always been a part of American identity—one that is full of social and political debate. As such, Christian America? presents ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Activist Impulse

    Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism

    Edited by Jared S. Burkholder, David Cramer ...
    Anabaptists have often felt suspicious of American evangelicalism, and in turn evangelicals have found various reasons to dismiss the Anabaptist witness. Yet at various points in the past as well as the present, evangelicals and Anabaptists have found ample reason for conversation and much to appreciate about each other. The Activist Impulse represents the first book-length examination of the ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Infinite Fountain of Light

    Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-First Century

    by George M. Marsden ...
    Christians need to pause once in a while to get their bearings. For perspective on our own times and how we got here, it helps to listen to wise guides from other eras. In An Infinite Fountain of Light, the renowned American historian George Marsden illuminates the landscape with wisdom from one such mentor: Jonathan Edwards.Drawing on his deep expertise on Edwards and American culture, Marsden ... Read more

    $38.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook