Mark A. Noll

In this popular introduction to church history, Mark Noll isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity....

American history has profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, Christianity. This engaging introduction provides a brisk and lively yet deeply researched survey of these intertwined forces from the colonial period to the present....

Mark Noll, one of the most influential historians of American religion writing today, traces the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with race....

The Civil War was a major turning point in American religious thought, argues Mark A. Noll....

With fresh research and shrewd analysis, this volume by noted historian Mark A. Noll considers the surprising reception of Lewis among Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, and evangelical readers to see how early readings of the Oxford don shaped his later influence....

America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture. It explores the rise of a strongly Protestant Bible civilization in the early United States that was then fractured by debates over slavery....