The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America - Softcover

Mead, Sidney E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155635276X ISBN 13: 9781556352768

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub, 2007

Synopsis

In this lucid and learned book one of America's outstanding historians shows the development of the thought and institutional life which characterize Christianity in America. He explains this religious development in terms of the emergence of religious freedom and the physical fact of the frontier. As he enlarges upon many aspects of his main theme, Dr. Mead traces the parallel growth and creative tension of Christianity and democracy.Dr. Mead discusses:The American PeopleFrom Coercion to PersuasionAmerican Protestantism during the Revolutionary EpochThomas Jefferson's Fair ExperimentAbraham Lincoln's Last, Best Hope of EarthWhen Wise Men HopedDenominationalismAmerican Protestantism Since the Civil War I. From Denominationalism to AmericanismAmerican Protestantism Since the Civil War II. From Americanism to ChristianityThe Lively Experiment is an unusually interesting and timely study that will appeal to every reader concerned with the religious, social, intellectual, and cultural history of America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 155635276X
• ISBN 13: 9781556352768
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240