Was America founded as a «Christian» nation? What role has the Christian faith of many of its leaders played in the course of its history? How has Christianity affected American culture and society? This trenchant critique of the role of Christianity in American history highlights both the ways in which Christians have made many valuable contributions as «salt and light,» and how they have caused a great deal of damage by trying to be «savior and lord.» Believers in Christ have built one...
From 1807, when the first Protestant missionary arrived in China, to the 1920s, when a new phase of growth began, thousands of missionaries and Chinese Christians labored, often under very adverse conditions, to lay the groundwork for a solid, healthy, and self-sustaining Chinese church. Following an Introduction that sets the scene and surveys the entire period, Builders of the Chinese Church contains the stories of nine leading pioneers–seven missionaries and two Chinese. Here we meet Robert...
Carl F. H. Henry has been called «the Dean of evangelical theologians,» and «the premier theological representative of the evangelical movement in the last half of the twentieth century.» When his magnum opus, God, Revelation, and Authority, first appeared, it was hailed as «the most important work of evangelical theology in modern times.» Carl Henry: Theologian for All Seasons not only introduces contemporary readers to Carl Henry the man, but also demonstrates that his theology possesses...
