More money, more ministry : money and evangelicals in recent North American history / edited by Larry Eskridge and Mark A. Noll.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eskridge, Larry, 1954-

Noll, Mark A., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--United States--History--19th century.

Evangelicalism.

Finance--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Money--Religious aspects--Christianity.

United States.

History.

Money--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--19th century.

Money.

Finance--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--19th century.

Finance.

Evangelicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Money--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--20th century.

Finance--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--20th century.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 429 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, [2000]

Summary:

More Money, More Ministry explores the role that money has played in the growth ot North American evangelicalism over the last 150 years -- including its uneasy, sometimes ambivalent place in evangelical consciousness. Experts on the contemporary religious scene discuss how evangelicals have recently thought about, used, and mised money, looking in particular at Christian nonprofit organizations, fund-raising strategies, advertising and consumerism, evangelical higher education, financial scandals, and the connection between money and theology. As engaging to read as it is incisive, More Money, More Ministry provides a provocative view of the relation of finance and faith.

Contents:

1. American Evangelicalism and the National Economy, 1870-1997 / Robin Klay, John Lunn, Michael S. Hamilton 15

2. Evangelicals Confront Corporate Capitalism: Advertising, Consumerism, Stewardship, and Spirituality, 1880-1930 / Gary Scott Smith 39

3. "Sanctified Business": Historical Perspectives on Financing Revivals of Religion / Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe 81

4. More Money, More Ministry: The Financing of American Evangelicalism Since 1945 / Michael S. Hamilton 104

Part II Specific Studies

5. Moving Targets: Evangelicalism and the Transformation of American Economic Life, 1870-1920 / Peter Dobkin Hall 141

6. "Let Christian Women Set the Example in Their Own Gifts": The "Business" of Protestant Women's Organizations / Susan M. Yohn 180

7. No Solicitation: The China Inland Mission and Money / Alvyn Austin 207

8. Unpaid Debts: Metaphors and Millennialism in Southern Sectarian Movements / Ted Ownby 235

9. Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929-1942 / Joel A. Carpenter 259

10. The Funding of Evangelical Higher Education in the United States and Canada in the Postwar Period / Robert Burkinshaw 274

11. Technological Changes and Monetary Advantages: The Growth of Evangelical Funding, 1945 to the Present / Barry Gardner 298

12. Money Matters: The Phenomenon of Financial Counselor Larry Burkett and Christian Financial Concepts / Larry Eskridge 311

13. Levels of Contributions and Attitudes toward Money among Evangelicals and Non-Evangelicals in Canada and the U.S. / Dean R. Hoge, Mark A. Noll 351

14. "Too Good to Be True": The New Era Foundation Scandal and Its Implications / Thomas C. Berg 374

15. Contemporary Evangelicalism and Mammon: Some Thoughts / Joel A. Carpenter 399

16. Money and Theology in American Evangelicalism / John G. Stackhouse, Jr. 406.

Notes:

Originally presented at an invitational consultation on evangelicals and finance held in Naperville, Illinois in early December 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802847773

OCLC:

44811702