The making of evangelicalism : from revivalism to politics and beyond / Randall Balmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balmer, Randall Herbert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelicalism--United States--History.

Evangelicalism.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 89 pages)

Place of Publication:

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2010.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The age of revivals and the First Amendment

The transition from postmillennialism to premillennialism

The construction of a subculture

The rise of the religious right.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-89).

ISBN:

9781602582439

1602582432

9781481305051

1481305050