CH241 The History of Christianity in the United States
Overview
In The History of Christianity in the United States, Chris Armstrong provides an introduction to the major movements, ideas, figures, and events in American church history, from colonization to recent decades. See how transplanted European churches took root, and American originals sprang up, over the course of five centuries of challenges and opportunities: early settlements, the expansion of the frontier, wars of independence and unification, slavery, immigration, intellectual challenges to the faith, and the new political and social realities of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Learn how the church reinvented and reaffirmed its central identity in the face of these social changes, and discover the implications of American church history for Christian life and ministry in today’s culture.
Top Highlights
“Those two kinds of activism—missions and social reform—would be the thrust of evangelicalism coming out of the Great Awakening and onwards.” (source)
“John Wesley would later add—in good Enlightenment, empiricist fashion—spiritual experience” (source)
“Third, doctrine was determined at the synod level up at the top” (source)
“It was attacked with particular virulence and sophistication by the Lutheran theologian Anders Nygren in his 1932 book, Agape and Eros. Nygren insisted that a Christian disciple must take no regard at all for his or her own desires and pleasures but seek entirely the good of God and of others.” (source)
“He did not make the heathen aristocrat to rule over the honest Christian in matters of church as well as state. Religious liberty, therefore, prescribed a breaking away from the Southern culture of honor and the creation of a new evangelical culture with a tendency towards social leveling.” (source)
- Title: CH241 The History of Christianity in the United States
- Author: Chris Armstrong
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Christianity › United States; Education › Christianity--United States; Education › United States--Church history; United States › Church history
- Resource ID: LLS:CH241ARMSTRONG
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2019-06-21T15:29:09Z
Dr. Chris Armstrong is the founding director of Opus: The Art of Work, a new institute at Wheaton College dedicated to understanding God’s call for work in the world. Prior to taking this post in 2014, he was director of Bethel Seminary’s Work with Purpose initiative while serving as a professor at Bethel. His training is in the field of American church history, and his areas of interest include religion and emotion; Christianity and literature; the holiness, Pentecostal, and charismatic movements; the Christ-and-culture conversation; and the “ancient–future” and “new monastic” movements within evangelicalism. He received his BA from St. Mary’s University in Nova Scotia (Canada), his MA from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and his PhD from Duke University, where his research focused on the 19th-century holiness movement.
Dr. Armstrong wrote over 70 articles as the former managing editor of Christian History & Biography magazine, and he continues to contribute to Christian History & Biography and other publications, including Christianity Today and Leadership Journal. He has contributed chapters to Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land (edited by Mark A. Noll and Edith L. Blumhofer) and Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders (edited by James R. Goff Jr. and Grant Wacker). Dr. Armstrong’s book, Patron Saints for Postmoderns, was published in 2009 by InterVarsity Press, and his forthcoming book, Getting Medieval: An Exploration with C. S. Lewis, will be published by Baker Academic.