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evangelical historiography

“Evangelicals believe…”

John Fea   |  January 23, 2025

I am teaching my history course on the “Age of Hamilton” this semester. In between the first and second class periods I asked the students to watch Lin Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton. On the second day of class we […]

A bunch of white, patriarchal nationalist Christians who “seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics” held a baptism ceremony at Ohio State

John Fea   |  September 1, 2024

In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, one of the most important journals in the study of religion, historian Matthew Avery Sutton writes: â€œ…post-World War II evangelicalism is best defined as a white, patriarchal, nationalist religious movement made up of Christians who […]

“White, patriarchal, nationalist Christians who seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics” for Kamala Harris?

John Fea   |  August 17, 2024

Earlier this week, a group called “Evangelicals for Harris” met on a ZOOM call to explain why evangelicals should vote for Kamala Harris. Who are these “Evangelicals for Harris?” In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy […]

Kind words from Christopher “Pietist Schoolman” Gehrz on Confessing History

John Fea   |  December 13, 2023

Before Jay Green, Eric Miller, and yours truly got together to start Current, we edited a book titled Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation (2010). The book includes essays by Mark Schwehn, Una Cadegan, Beth Barton […]

Catholic historian Christopher Shannon discusses Catholic and Evangelical historiography

John Fea   |  September 9, 2022

If you have been reading Current this week you may have noticed that we featured an interview with historian Christopher Shannon and a review of his new book American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World. […]