Church history—United States

Nathan O. Hatch on the DIY spirit of early American Christianity

Allan Bevere and Peter Leithart evaluate "empire criticism," a way of reading the New Testament with an anti-imperial focus. (36 minutes)

FROM VOL. 55 Mark Noll describes the different form that the Christian faith and the life of churches took when Christianity migrated to North America. (16 minutes)

Nathan O. Hatch’s The Democratization of American Christianity argues that Jeffersonian and Jacksonian visions of human flourishing stamped American Christianity with an individualistic character that fundamentally shaped the American Church and its message.

FEATURED GUESTS: Thomas Albert Howard, Jean Porter, Peter Augustine Lawler, Hans Boersma, Felicia Wu Song, and Elias Aboujaoude

FEATURED GUESTS: Peter Augustine Lawler, David Koyzis, Roger Lundin, Craig Gay, Steven Rhoads, and R. Larry Todd

FEATURED GUESTS: David Naugle, D. G. Hart, Dermot Quinn, Russell Hittinger, Leon Kass, and James Howard Kunstler

FEATURED GUESTS: John Hare, Clifford Putney, Andrei S. Markovits, Wilmer Mills, Steve Bruce, Colleen Carroll, Michael Budde, and Robert Brimlow

FEATURED GUESTS: Harry Blamires, David Healy, Paul Gutjahr, Christine Pohl, Francis Fukuyama, Paul Corby Finney, and J. A. C. Redford