![]() "Noll offers a clear, succinct, and accessible account of the European Christian churches' experiences from their arrival in America to the present time. Readers can know they are in good hands." Noll writes with a refreshing candor, fair-mindedness, and wisdom. The result is a book that offers an unusual breadth of perspective, revisiting a number of interpretive questions with new insight. ![]() His expert understanding of the history of Christianity and the history of theology, not only in his own country but also in Europe, Canada, and Mexico, allows him to transcend the limitations of a merely 'Americanist' perspective. ![]() His clarity should not be mistaken for the na?vet? of some once-over-lightly texts. " The Old Religion in a New World is marked by Noll's characteristic lucidity and reflects his enviable mastery of a wide range of specialist literature. ![]() An eminently learned, lucid, and enlightening book." "What sets the book apart is the emphasis on what is American about religion in America to begin with but also the combination of comprehensive narrative and analytically reasoned treatment of such recurrent if not perennial issues like church-state relations, concepts of pluralism, or the relation, if any, of religious practice and theology. Christianity Today, Award of Merit, History/Biography (2003) ![]()
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