Reckoning with the Past: Historical Essays on American Evangelicalism from the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals

From the 17th century Puritans through Youth for Christ and postmodernism, the 16 essays in Reckoning with the Past illuminate the history of U.S. evangelism. The essays include ideological origins of the American Revolution, the popular theology that sprang from the Second Great Awakening, and developments in Pentecostalism, millennialism, and fundamentalism.