Joined in Discipleship: The Maturing of an American Religious Movement

Religion & Spirituality

Toulouse, Mark G.

Christian Books & Bibles

Chalice Press

In this important study, Mark Toulouse maps the ambiguous landscape between American Christianity and American public life. Built on an extensive study of religious periodical literature since the mid-1950s and on an analysis of landmark events in American history, Toulouse develops an insightful typology for understanding how Americans have related their Christian faith to public life. For Toulouse, the relationship between American Christianity and American public life exists in four styles of interaction--iconic faith, priestly faith, the public Christian, and the public church--with each model appearing in various forms across the terrain of American history. Carefully examined and accessibly written, this study is sure to generate discussion and bring clarity to the many ambiguities and diversities that continue to mark American Christianity.

God in Public: Four Ways American Christianity and Public Life Relate

History

Americas

Westminster/John Knox Press

While a large percentage of Americans claim religious identity, the number of Americans attending traditional worship services has significantly declined in recent decades. Where, then, are Americans finding meaning in their lives, if not in the context of traditional religion? In this provocative study, the authors argue that the objects of our attention have become our god and fulfilling our desires has become our religion. They examine the religious dimensions of six specific aspects of American culture—body and sex, big business, entertainment, politics, sports, and science and technology—that function as "altars" where Americans gather to worship and produce meaning for their lives. The Altars Where We Worship shows how these secular altars provide resources for understanding the self, others, and the world itself. "For better or worse," the authors write, "we are faced with the reality that human experiences before these altars contain religious characteristics in common with experiences before more traditional altars." Readers will come away with a clearer understanding of what religion is after exploring the thoroughly religious aspects of popular culture in the United States.

The Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Popular Culture

Humor & Entertainment

Floyd-Thomas, Juan M.

Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M.

Movies

This important reference work presents critical, analytical, and interpretive essays on more than ninety figures who have been particularly important in shaping and influencing the development of Christian theology in America.

Makers of Christian Theology in America

ABINGDON PRESS *

This volume is intended as a companion to the story already told in Makers of Christian Theology in America (Abingdon, 1997) by scholars who sketched intellectual portraits of 91 thinkers formative in Christian theological discussion. Emphasis is on theologians or theologies which reach considerably beyond their denominational, regional, ethnic, or "school" support bases. The volume thus has selections of the sort standard and revisionist histories alike have cause to take into account in their field surveys. The focus is on the traditions of scholarly Christian church theology, and the selections offer access to substantive content at some considerable length, using complete and self-contained samples when possible, instead of snippets. The four eras of Christian theology's history in America covered by these sixty readings are the colonial, early national, post-Civil War to World War I, and twentieth-century developments.

Sources of Christian Theology in America

Abingdon

Duke, James O.

World

Mark Toulouse explores how the denomination can draw on its unique past to build its future.

Joined in Discipleship: The Shaping of Contemporary Disciples Identity

Chalice Pr

Walter Scott, one of the important shapers of the Stone-Campbell Movement, is best known for his "five-finger exercise," but there is much, much more to learn about this complex man of God. In this collection of essays, originally written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Scott's birth, nine distinguished scholars from the three branches of the Restoration Movement examine the life and faith of this nineteenth-century evangelical. Contributors include: Peter M. Morgan; Mark G. Toulouse; David Edwin Harrell, Jr.; Amy Artman; James O. Duke; Thomas H. Olbricht; T. Dwight Bozeman; D. Newell Williams; Fred Craddock.

Walter Scott: A Nineteenth-Century Evangelical

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

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