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Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism

George Marsden

Presenting a historical overview of fundamentalism and evangelicalism in America, this volume has been developed from a number of studies undertaken by George Marsden during the 1980's in efforts to understand the recent resurgence of these ...
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and ...

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and ...

George Marsden

As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country’s secular, liberal elites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved ...
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

George M. Marsden

In this book, Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context.
My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred ...

My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred ...

Marsden Hartley

A collection of correspondence between American artist Marsden Hartley and avant-grade impresario and photographer Alfred Stieglitz, this work chronicles the painter's three-year-plus European pilgrimage before and during the inception of ...
The Evangelical Historians: The Historiography of George ...

The Evangelical Historians: The Historiography of George ...

Maxie B. Burch

This book explores the personal backgrounds, historical methodologies, and academic philosophies of George Marsden, Nathan Hatch, and Mark Noll.
Dear Miffy

Dear Miffy

John Marsden

Telling powerful stories has become the hallmark of John Marsden's writing. But even John Marsden has never written a book as powerful and gutsy as Dear Miffy. [Contents may offend some readers]
Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

Donna Cassidy

A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work.
The Tomorrow Series: The Dead of the Night

The Tomorrow Series: The Dead of the Night

John Marsden

John Marsden. Chapter. Four. Homer was quite impressed tohearthat wewere so wellknown, so notorious. 'Let's showthem we're still in business,' hesaid, smiling his slowest, most dangerous smile. Ishivered slightly. Despite my murderous ...
The Tomorrow Series: Darkness Be My Friend

The Tomorrow Series: Darkness Be My Friend

John Marsden

John Marsden. at all. Instead I had to struggle to get upright. True to form, I was not the athletic jungle fighter but still the awkward koala. Nothing had changed. When Idid manage togetmy balance I crouched onmy haunches to take agood look ...
John Marsden: Darkness, Shadow, and Light

John Marsden: Darkness, Shadow, and Light

John Noell Moore

Throughout the book, Moore weaves together Marsden's recurring themes, chief among them writing and storytelling as ways of constructing identity in the transition from childhood to adulthood and the ability of young adults to endure ...
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant ...

The Soul of the American University: From Protestant ...

George M. Marsden

Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.
The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian ...

The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian ...

George Marsden

"The passing of reformed theology as a major influence in American life during the nineteenth century was not a spectacular event, and its mourners have been relatively few.
Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation ...

Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation ...

Sascha T. Scott

... Randall Griffey, would like to extend a discussion of Hartley's work beyond a presumed inherent homoeroticism. See Randall Griffey, “Encoding the Homoerotic: Marsden Hartley's Late Figure Paintings,” in Kornhauser, ed., Marsden Hartley, ...
Jonathan Edwards: A Life

Jonathan Edwards: A Life

George M. Marsden

Presents a biography of the clergyman who played a major role in eighteenth-century American religious life and served as president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.
Marsden Hartley's Maine

Marsden Hartley's Maine

Donna Cassidy

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Marsden Hartley's Maine, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 14 through June 18, 2017, and at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, from July 8 through ...
The Future of Evangelicalism in America

The Future of Evangelicalism in America

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Candy Gunther Brown, Mark Silk. Introduction 15. Martin Marty, Righteous Empire Revisited (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 2007); George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of ...
Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New ...

Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New ...

George M. Marsden

said the Beacon.40 David Otis Fuller (no relation), a prominent pastor in the separatist General Association of Regular Baptists, wrote to the Fuller Seminary faculty saying that he had known Ockenga at Princeton but now had totally lost ...
American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the State of ...

American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the State of ...

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... Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 62; Riley quoted in Adam Laats, “More Than a Monkey Trial: Fundamentalism and American Education in the 1920s” (PhD diss.,  ...
Reaffirming Higher Education

Reaffirming Higher Education

Jacob Neusner

Wesleyan University Press. Magat, Richard. 1979. The Ford Foundation At Work New York: Plenum Press. Marsden, George M. 1994. The Soul of the American University: From Protestant establishment to established non-belief New York: ...
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald

44. 45. 46. 47. Frady, p. 232. Ibid., pp. 240–42, 251; McLoughlin, 1960, p. 118. George Marsden, 1991, p. 132. McLoughlin, 1960, pp. 110–15; Long, Billy Graham and the Beloved Community, p. 170. Long, pp. 180–81; McLoughlin, 1960, pp.
Home and away

Home and away

John Marsden

Mum is a rehab counselor for people with alcohol problems.
The Chemistry of Gold Extraction

The Chemistry of Gold Extraction

John Marsden

This book is a valuable asset for all professionals involved in the precious metals industries.
Letters from the Inside

Letters from the Inside

John Marsden

When Tracey and Mandy first became pen pals, they never guessed that they would soon discover the darkest secrets of each other's troubled lives.
George

George

Alex Gino

" - David Levithan, author of Every Day and editor of George. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever.

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