TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,O.C.
TI  - A nation with the soul of a church: how Christian proclamation has shaped American history 
SN  - 9780313393853 (hardback)
AV  - BR 515 .E36 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Santa Barbara, California
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Christian biography
KW  - United States
KW  - Sermons, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Influence
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "A modell of Christian charity": John Winthrop (1588-1649) -- "Our God sent a new storm": Anne Hutchinson -- "The limit of endurable ecstasies": Jonathan Edwards -- The tolerable catechist: Jonathan Mayhew -- "The impassioned little saint with the buring heart": William Ellery Channing -- "The cultural priest and visionary": Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "I am a South Carolinian, you know": Benjamin Morgan Paqlmer -- "In the next generation, I shall be orthodox enough": Henry Ward Beecher -- "The penniless millionaire": Russell H. Conwell -- A social evangelist: Washington Gladden -- Casting out demon rum: Billy Sunday -- "The great divide," Part I: William B. Riley -- "The great divide," Part II: Harry Emerson Fosdick -- "The most noticeable public religious voice": Charles E. Coughlin -- "A realist without despair, an idealist without illusion": Reinhold Niebuhr -- "The moral leader of our nation": Martin Luther King Jr. -- "Above all a preacher": William Sloane Coffin Jr. -- "America's pastor": Billy Graham -- An aptly named prophet: Jeremiah A. Wright Jr
N2  - "From the very beginning, religious leaders have influenced the course of American history--sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. This book examines those Christian sermons that set or changed the course of the nation"--
ER  -