This post is part of a series at the Anxious Bench on ‘Contested Ideas in the History of Ideas’, which brings debates from contributors’ respective fields
This post is part of a series at the Anxious Bench on ‘Contested Ideas in the History of Ideas’, which brings debates from contributors’ respective fields
American evangelicals have a categorical problem. I’m not talking about our denominations, our broader theological traditions, or even our distressing and
As we worry about the decline in church affiliation, a historian offers some important perspective. In 1890, only 22% of Americans were affiliated with a church. That compares to 46% today, already a drop from a high of 70% in the 1990s. Far from being an age of increased secularity, the 20th century saw religion in the USA grow more than 300%!
John Piper, the Minnesota-based Baptist pastor who has popularized Jonathan Edwards’s Calvinist theology for a new generation of the “young, restless, and