By Mark A. Noll
A readable, far-reaching historical past of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic spiritual workforce, Protestants in America explores the actual and ideological roots of the denomination as much as the current day, and strains the origins of yankee Protestants the entire as far back as the 1st English colony at Jamestown. The ebook covers their involvement in severe matters from temperance to the civil rights flow, the institution of Protestant firms just like the American Bible Society and the Salvation military, and the numerous enlargement in their ethnic base because the first African-American Protestant church buildings have been inbuilt the 1770s. Mark Noll follows their direct effect on American history--from the yankee Revolution to global warfare I and beyond--and peppers his account with profiles of prime Protestants, from Jonathan Edwards and Phillis Wheatley to Billy Graham and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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