The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond

by Randall Balmer

Publisher:

Baylor University Press

, 2010

Overview

With impressively clear prose and a superb command of history, best-selling author Randall Balmer here 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—the transition from Calvinist to Armenian theology in the embrace of revivalism, the shift from postmillennialism, the retreat into a subculture, and the rise of the Religious Right—Balmer masterfully demonstrates how American evangelicalism is truly American and concludes with a manifesto directing where evangelicalism must go from here forward.

Product Details

• Title: The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond
• Author: Randall Balmer
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Evangelicalism › United States--History; United States › Church history
• ISBNs: 9781481305051, 9781602582439, 9781481304887, 1481305050, 1602582432, 1481304887
• Resource ID: LLS:MKNGVNGLCLSMRVV
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:32:33Z

About Randall Balmer

Randall Balmer is Mandel Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Religion, Dartmouth College. A prolific and highly esteemed writer, he is the author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America, God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, and Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America.