Evangelical Landscapes: Facing Critical Issues of the Day

by John G. Stackhouse Jr.

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2002

Evangelical Landscapes presents a wide-ranging discussion of evangelical growing pains as the movement confronts a variety of challenges in the new millennium.

Contents

1. Perpetual Adolescence: The Current Culture of North American Evangelicalism
2. The Promise and Peril of the "Parachurch"
3. A Double Copernican Revolution in the Church
4. Evangelicals and the Bible Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
5. Money and Theology in North American Evangelicalism
6. The Christian Church in the New Dark Age: Illiteracy, Aliteracy, and the Word of God
7. A "Paradigm Case": Billy Graham and the Nature of Conversion
8. Women in Public Ministry in Twentieth-Century North American Evangelicalism: Five Models
9. Why Johnny Can't Produce Christian Scholarship
10. Evangelical Theology Should Be Evangelical
11. Speaking in Tongues: Communicating the Gospel Today

Product Details

• Title: Evangelical Landscapes: Facing Critical Issues of the Day
• Author: John G. Stackhouse Jr.
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2002
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781441241887, 9780801025945, 080102594X, 1441241884
• Resource ID: LLS:9781441241887
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-30T20:48:06Z

About John G. Stackhouse Jr.

John Stackhouse is an advisory editor at Christianity Today, a contributing editor at Books & Culture, and a consulting editor at Christian History & Biography magazines. He is the author of more than 500 articles, book chapters, and reviews in the history, sociology, and philosophy of religion and in theology. He has published seven books and edited or co-edited four more. Dr. Stackhouse’s commentary has been featured by most North American television networks, many radio stations, and print media as diverse as The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Atlantic, Time, Reader’s Digest, The Christian Century, and even Maxim. He has lectured at schools as various as Yale University, Calvin Theological Seminary, Prairie Bible Institute, Brigham Young University, and the People’s University of China. A jazz musician, he sometimes plays piano, electric bass, trumpet, or guitar for Regent events. He was also a right winger on the Regent College hockey team that lost the UBC intramural championship on a dreadful referee’s mistake.