The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0731ZXX1W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 487 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mary M said Church History Made Personal. I was gripped by this book and did not want to stop reading it until I was done. I read a lot of nonfiction, but seldom do finish them, even when I'm fascinated. So many things distract me, especially so many other books. But this book, difficult as it was, it was personal - like I was reading about my own extended family. It shed light on things that have been troub. "Great Historical Survey of Christian Intellectual Thought" according to John P. Mueller. This is a good primer on the historical development of Christian thought. It gives you a sense of the key periods and influences. Consequently it is much easier to understand where we are today. Anyone looking for more understanding behind the key influences and developments will find this helpful. The writing has a bit too much rhetorical flourish and the meaning co. "Excellent summary of why Evangelicals don't think" according to Kyle G. Brown. Very good summary of the many problems inherent in the intellectual life of Evangelicalism. His contention that Evangelicals withdrew from mainstream post-secondary Education and set up their own "Separate but Equal" institutions that lost them their place at the table of ideas is particularly on target.
"The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." So begins this award-winning intellectual history and critique of the evangelical movement by one of evangelicalism's most respected historians. Unsparing in his judgment, Mark Noll ask why the largest single group of religious Americans - who enjoy increasing wealth, status, and political influence - have contributed so little to rigorous intellectual scholarship in North America. In nourishing believers in the simple truths of the gospel, why have evangelicals failed at sustaining a serious intellectual life and abandoned the universities, the arts, and other realms of "high" culture? Noll is probing and forthright in his analysis of how this situation came about, but he doesn't end there. Challenging the evangelical community, he sets out to find, within evangelicalism itself, resources for turning the situation around.