Seeking a Better Country
300 Years of American Presbyterianism
Published on 1. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-62995-654-1 (ISBN)
Description
Seeking a Better Country is a readable and lively survey of American Presbyterianism since its founding in 1706. Its aim is not to celebrate but instead to understand how Presbyterians formed one of the largest and most influential denominations in the United States and those historical developments that led to their decline.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NJ
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62995-654-1 (9781629956541)
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Persons
D. G. Hart studied American history at the Johns Hopkins University and has served as Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College and Academic Dean and Professor of Church History at Westminster Seminary in California. He is currently Visiting Professor of History at Hillsdale College. His books include Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism (1994); The Lost Soul of American Protestantism (2002); With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (2002); John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist (2005); and A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State (2006).