Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 162
FEATURED GUESTS: Mark Noll, R. Jared Staudt, Paul Weston, William C. Hackett, Hans Boersma, and David Paul Baird
Early evangelical response to C. S. Lewis
Historian Mark Noll discusses the reasons why American evangelicals were initially slow to warm to Lewis. (15 minutes)
“Muscular Christianity” and sport as language
In light of this summer’s Olympic Games, we present two sports-related archive interviews: Clifford Putney on Protestant emphasis on fitness at the turn of the 19th century; and Andrei S. Markovits on Americans and soccer. (23 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 140
FEATURED GUESTS:
Matthew Rubery, James A. Herrick, Jack Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro, Timothy Gloege, David Hollinger, and Barrett Fisher
Faith of our fathers
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.