More Money, More Ministry: Money and Evangelicals in Recent North American History
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802847773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Over the last century and a half, Eskridge and Noll assert in the introduction to this fine collection, evangelical Protestants have displayed at least "two attitudes toward money and its role in believers' lives." Some have depended with such confidence on divine providence that they haven't bothered to save, plan or be otherwise financially prudent; others have embraced the market, believing that God will provide through soaring stocks. The sleeper of the bunch is Robert Burkinshaw's comparison of how Canadians and Americans funded Christian colleges and universities after World War II. These essaysAmost of which were first presented at a 1998 Wheaton College conferenceAexplore both strategies. Many evangelicals, argues Gary Scott Smith in a scintillating look at evangelicals' encounter with corporate capitalism from 1880 to 1930, criticized consumerism and respond
. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College, Illinois, and the author and editor of many bestselling books and articles, including "Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind," and "A History of Christianity in the United State
As engaging to read as it is incisive, More Money, More Ministry provides a provocative view of the relation of finance and faith.. More Money, More Ministry explores the role that money has played in the growth of North American evangelicalism over the last 150 years - including its uneasy, sometimes ambivalent place in evangelical consciousness. Experts on the contemporary religious scene discuss how evangelicals have recently thought about, used, and raised money, looking in particular at Christian nonprofit organizations, fund-raising strategies, advertising and consumerism, evangelical higher education, financial scandals, and the connection between money and t
A long and eye opening read A Customer I like the works of Mark Noll for a few reasons. The main one is that he makes me stop and think about something I simply take for granted and why I think that way. So, the fallacy "More Money = More Ministry" was shattered as I read through this collection of essays, research papers, and opinions about the link between 20th century evangelism and money. This book is not just about the TBN-type swindlers, nor is it a Hard Copy-like expose on ministries. It often presents opinions and facts and lets the reader decide on their own.. "Insight into the relationship between evangelicalism and money" according to Ansen Plopbundle. This book was originally presented an a consultation on “Evangelicals and Finance” in 1998 in Naperville, Illinois. The overarching consensus of the scholars presenting was that “there is no universal evangelical opinion on money and its use, any more than there is a single evangelical view on church government and structure” (2). Not a shock, and probably not entirely that insightful, but the book breaks down in detailed fashion why this is so. So, MMMM is aimed at clarifying the relationship of how evangelicals think, reason about money, and use and raise mo