Reply #6: Here's a great book which might help: [View All]

[RevCheesehead]

Mark A. Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans), 1994.

(from the book flap):

"...tracing the history of evangelical thinking in America... Noll's analysis:

* shows how Protestants successfully aligned themselves with national ideals and with the particular expressions of an American Enlightenment in the decades before the Civil War

* explains how fundamentlists at the start of the twentieth century preserved essential elements of the faith, but only by grievously damaging the life of the mind

* gives specific attention to evangelical thought on politics and science

* discusses what some have called an "evangelical intellectual renaissance" in recent decades and shows why it is more apparent than real.

Written to encourage reform as well as to inform, this book ends with an outline of some preliminary steps by which evangelicals might yet come to love the Lord more thoroughly with the mind.

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I would also recommend Jim Wallis' book God and Politics.