By Mark A. Noll
A readable, far-reaching background of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic spiritual workforce, Protestants in the USA explores the actual and ideological roots of the denomination as much as the current day, and lines the origins of yankee Protestants the entire as far back as the 1st English colony at Jamestown. The publication covers their involvement in serious matters from temperance to the civil rights circulate, the institution of Protestant agencies just like the American Bible Society and the Salvation military, and the numerous growth in their ethnic base because the first African-American Protestant church buildings have been in-built the 1770s. Mark Noll follows their direct influence on American history--from the yankee Revolution to global conflict I and beyond--and peppers his account with profiles of major Protestants, from Jonathan Edwards and Phillis Wheatley to Billy Graham and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dissenters from the Puritan way in New England would be treated almost as harshly as Puritans had been handled by king and bishop in England. But for those in New England who could accept the larger purposes of the Puritan leaders, possibilities existed for political stability, social harmony, and religious fulfillment available nowhere else in the world during the 17th century. The leader who showed the Puritan movement at its best was John Winthrop. Elected the first governor of the Massachusetts colony before the settlers left England, Winthrop was re-elected to that same post for most of his life.
And several different kinds of Baptist churches were being gathered in New England, New York, and points farther South. Not long after the turn of the 18th century, the variety of Protestants increased even more. Moravians and humble farmers called simply In this 18th-century engraving from a painting by Benjamin West, William Penn signs a peace treaty with the Indians in 1681. Penn made his colony a welcoming place for his fellow Quakers, but also for Christians from many other denominations. 47 • Protestants in America Image Not Available Brethren came from Germany to the New World (mostly Pennsylvania) with the message of Pietism.
34 Where Do Protestants Come From? • Image Not Available of Martin Luther, or the pacifism of the Anabaptists. They resembled earnest Catholic Christians of the Middle Ages by practicing asceticism, or the disciplined organization of all life and attitudes for the glory of God. But unlike the monks and nuns of the Middle Ages, these Reformed Protestants practiced their discipline for God in the world. Family life, business practices, political decisions, management of leisure time—all such concerns were pursued with religious seriousness.
