Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism

Heath W. Carter, Laura Porter

• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781467446433
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: History of Christianity

Lucid, authoritative overview of a major movement in American history The history of American evangelicalism is perhaps best understood by examining its  turning points —those moments when it took on a new scope, challenge, or influence. The Great Awakening, the rise of fundamentalism and Pentecostalism, the emergence of Billy Graham—all these developments and many more have given shape to one of the most dynamic movements in American religious history. Taken together, these turning points serve as a clear and helpful roadmap for understanding how evangelicalism has become what it is today. Each chapter in this book has been written by one of the world's top experts in American religious history, and together they form a single narrative of evangelicalism's remarkable development. Here is an engaging, balanced, coherent history of American evangelicalism from its origins as a small movement to its status as a central player in the American religious story. Contributors & Topics Harry S. Stout   on  the Great Awakening
Catherine A. Brekus   on  the evangelical encounter with the Enlightenment
Jon Butler   on  disestablishment
Richard Carwardine   on  antebellum reform
Marguerite Van Die   on  the rise of the domestic ideal
Luke E. Harlow   on  the Civil War and conservative American evangelicalism
George M. Marsden   on  the rise of fundamentalism
Edith Blumhofer   on  urban Pentecostalism
Dennis C. Dickerson   on  the Great Migration
Mark Hutchinson   on  the global turn in American evangelicalism
Grant Wacker   on  Billy Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revival
Darren Dochuk   on  American evangelicalism's Latin turn

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. What Made the Great Awakening Great?
• 2. The Evangelical Encounter with the Enlightenment
• 3. Disestablishment as American Sisyphus
• 4. Antebellum Reform
• 5. The Rise of the Domestic Ideal in the United States and Canada
• 6. The Civil War and the Making of Conservative American Evangelicalism
• 7. The Rise of Fundamentalism
• 8. Urban Pentecostalism: Chicago, 1906–1912
• 9. The Great Migration
• 10. The Global Turn in American Evangelicalism
• 11. Billy Graham’s 1949 Los Angeles Revival
• 12. Lausanne ’74 and American Evangelicalism’s Latin Turn
• Afterword
• Contributors
• Index