Made in America: The Shaping of Modern American Evangelicalism
Overview
Michael Horton calls evangelicals back to faith and truth. He believes that there is a “crisis of truth in our time. . . . And it is due at least in part to our cultural accommodation.” Horton looks at the relationship between biblical teaching and what it means to be popular and accepted in America today, and he challenges his brothers and sisters in Christ to put aside hypocrisy and superficial success and return to a more humble, apostolic church.
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- Presents a strong call to action from a leading voice in American evangelicalism
- Examines the social and political climate regarding faith in modern America
- Encourages a return to sound biblical principles
- Introduction: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- Making God Safe for Democracy
- The “How To” Gospel
- Consumerism
- From Salvation to Self-Esteem
- Feeling’s Believing
- The Return to Paganism
- To Each His Own
- The Loss of Community
Top Highlights
“Today, the World Council of Churches tells us, ‘Doctrine divides; service unites.’” (Page 10)
“The myth we expose in this chapter is a popular one and it, too, has impeded an authentic Christian witness. It holds that America was a born-again country at its founding in 1776 but lost its way as recently as the revolutionary 1960s and the subsequent two decades of license. According to this viewpoint, America was a promised land, originally dedicated to Jesus Christ, but now largely lost.” (Pages 16–17)
“‘Christianity is not a way of going around human problems, but a way of going through them in a way that really honors God. And this,’ he added, ‘is the faith that overcomes the world.’” (Page 55)
“the architects of the Enlightenment placed their own reason where revelation had been enthroned” (Page 22)
“Nevertheless, what we get from Scripture is that there is a real sense in which the gospel is not supposed to sell! If we succeed in making the gospel appealing to sinners on the basis of satisfying their consumer appetites, we have not succeeded at all. If unbelievers do not find Christianity offensive (that is, for the right reasons), there is something wrong with our presentation. The Great Commission was a command to make disciples, not to establish franchises for consumers.” (Page 65)
Here is a Jeremiad with a difference: it invigorates. Michael Horton is a well-informed communicator with fire in his belly about Reformation Christianity, and his sense of tragedy and outrage comes through as he traces out the spiritual slide of Protestant America into decadence and worldliness. Schaefferish in perception and compassion, this is a strong, good book.
—J.I. Packer, professor of theology, Regent College
Michael Horton is a bright new light in Reformed Evangelicalism. He has an amazing gift for tackling a critical contemporary issue, analyzing it deeply and presenting his findings in readable and engaging idiom.
—James Montgomery Boice, author, Foundations of the Christian Faith
This is a bracing challenge to let God be God, even in America, even among Evangelicals. It is a word that needs to be heard.
—Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
- Title: Made in America: The Shaping of Modern American Evangelicalism
- Author: Michael Horton
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2006
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 198
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Evangelicalism › United States; Christianity and culture
- ISBNs: 9781597527033, 1597527033
- Resource ID: LLS:MDMRCMRVNGLCLSM
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:29:08Z
Michael Horton has taught apologetics and theology at Westminster Seminary California since 1998. In addition to his work at the Seminary, he is the president of White Horse Media, for which he co-hosts the White Horse Inn, a nationally syndicated, weekly radio talk-show exploring issues of Reformation theology in American Christianity. He is also the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. Before coming to WSC, Dr. Horton completed a Research Fellowship at Yale University Divinity School.
A member of various societies, including the American Academy of Religion and the Evangelical Theological Society, Dr. Horton is the author/editor of 20 books, including a series of studies in Reformed dogmatics, whose final volume (People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology) was published in 2008. In addition to the popular Putting Amazing Back Into Grace, Dr. Horton’s latest books are Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ, Lord and Servant: A Covenant Christology, and A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship. He has written articles for Modern Reformation, Pro Ecclesia, Christianity Today, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, Touchstone, and Books and Culture. Dr. Horton is a minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America. He has served two churches in Southern California. He resides in Escondido, California, with his wife, Lisa, and their four children.